Yeah, this is a big "holy shit" moment for VoIP groups. I can just _hear_ the landline and cell phone companies gurgling with glee.
Of course, whichever VoIP group gets a working solution (assuming any do before the deadline) will patent the concept of dialing 911 on VoIP, block all the others from implementing it and thus eliminate their competition within 120 days.
...and coal is composed primarily of carbon. The carbon involved in diamond formation can be inorganic or organic in nature. Any organic carbon, including that in coal, that is caught in a subduction zone may be turned into a diamond and blown out in kimberlite later.
And what do you know, there's even data to support that natural diamonds are composed heavily of organic carbon. You know, like coal.
Of course, squeezing a lump of coal until the carbon in it turned into diamond would probably result in a pretty impure diamond.
My wife feels the same way. She dislikes diamonds in general (lucky for me, eh?) but she's always said she'd wear artificial diamonds just for the geek factor. She said that wearing something that was formed by the ingenuity of mankind is a lot more impressive than something formed by the random forces of nature...
That gets it on the client systems, sure. But how do you keep a user from (for example) changing their proxy setting? With IE you can lock the user out via Group Policies. With Firefox, well.. I'm not aware of a way to implement similar restrictions.
It sounds like a Windows Server Administrator Template Policy would go a long way towards Firefox acceptance in corporate environments. You'd need some kind of plugin for Firefox that makes it read values from the Windows registry, as well.
Alternatively, a Firefox plugin could read the Group Policy restrictions targeted at IE, and "translate" them internally to the Firefox equivalents, but such a solution would be a sloppy hack at best.
And can you just imagine what IBM would do to the bloody, tattered remains of SCO if SCO allowed the source to be leaked?
Hell, all that needs to happen is for large chunks of the relevant code to begin appearing around the 'net. Whether an SCO screw up put them there or not, guess who's going to take the heat when IBM's lawyersharks hear about it?
I've always thought of Pi as being infinitely precise. Irrational is the correct term, but damn it, mine makes more sense.
Here's what's always made my head spin though: There are infinitely many values between 3 and 4. Pi is one of them, and it is also irrational. There are many such irrational values between 3 and 4. In fact, there are an infinite number of irrational values between 3 and 4. There are also an infinite number of rational values between 3 and 4. 3 and 4 are part of the set of whole numbers.. which is infinite. But between any pair of whole numbers, you can find an infinite number of rational and irrational values. So... which infinity is bigger? It would seem that the infinite set of whole numbers is eclipsed by the infinite set of irrational and rational numbers _between_ each pair of whole numbers... arg.. and then thinking about the fact that every irrational number also stretches onto infinity...
No, but you can bet that any truly high-end brute-forcing system (such as those used by major world governments) would discover such patterns and decrypt the key much faster than if you used a RNG.
While I think you are being overly cynical (or perhaps not, alas) I also think that if the GPL is struck down here in the good old "Land of the Free"(TM) that this would not significantly slow its adoption world-wide.... must... resist.. urge.. to quote Kenobi...
If more religious fundamentalists were as rational in the presentation of their beliefs as you are here, there would be fewer problems in the world.
I disagree with you on almost every point you bring up, but it is your right to believe what you want. Thanks for presenting your point of view while respecting _my_ right to believe what I want.
I know how people hate to hear this, but if you don't commit the crime, you won't be hunted down.
Stop and think for a moment about your statement. You know that people hate to hear this. Did you ever wonder _why_? It's for the same reason that people hate the phrase "innocent people have nothing to fear from the police".
Police make mistakes; innocent people have served time. The police at least try their best to acertain guilt.
The MPAA/RIAA make no such attempts. They have filed suits against dead people, much less innocent ones. A lawsuit that goes to court at all already amounts to complete financial ruin for most people, regardless of the final verdict. Now you can go to jail for the crime of not being able to afford to fight your case in court.
The most amusing thing about all of this is that these infringements are already covered by copyright law. This legislation has no reason to exist other than as a scare tactic. It would have been cheaper (senators are expensive, after all) and probably more effective to put up posters saying "Don't share pre-releases or we'll send Guido over to break your kneecaps."
Budgies, parakeets and cockatiels will also imitate the phone ring, especially if your phone has a high-pitched (electronic) ringer. My parents' budgies would both do the "ring" sound, and then proceed to apparently fight each other to see who could do it louder.
On another note, what struck me as odd is that when a cockatiel learns new sounds, it's almost as if these "overwrite" certain reflexive noises. As a baby, the 'tiel would shriek or squawk when startled. As an adult, she will now make a particular learned sound, over and over and over, when she's startled or spooked. When she's hungry, she'll imitate the dryer buzzer. Essentially all of her "built-in" sounds have been replaced by learned ones.
Oooh, but that would take away from your time watching Survivor and The Apprentice. Perhaps the Cable company would even come and shut off your precious mind-numbing TV delivered drugs.
I have not had cable TV since 2002. My wife and I decided that as we watched all of about 5 shows regularly* that this didn't justify the massive amount of money it cost us to get it. Neither one of us could stand "network" television. So we canceled the cable TV. Our cable company immediately retaliated by raising our cable internet rates by $20, but what the hell, there's no other broadband available where I live and it's still cheaper than paying for the internet connection and the TV. The Gamecube, the DVD player, etc all provide plenty of work for the old idiot box.
Whenever either of us happens to mention that we don't watch TV, people generally react with complete disbelief. Some of the people I work with have entire conversations with each other that revolve around last night's episode of "Survivor" or "Who wants to marry an Asshole" and have nothing else to talk about. -- Them: "Hey, did you see last night?" Me: "Nope. Don't have cable." Them: "... Oh. Uh. OH! You've got one of those dishes? They can't get the local channels right?" Me: "Nope. I don't watch TV." Them: "Well the dishes are actually really cheap, they've got a good deal going on-" Me: "No, I mean I don't watch TV at home, by choice." Them: "... Oh. Uh..." (the next question I always half-expect is "What DO you watch then?" Me: "Did you see the new pictures from the Huygens probe? The one that landed on Titan?" Them: "What show was that?" -- Much as I'd like to say I made that conversation up, it actually happened a couple of months ago and it's certainly not the first time I've had one like that.
What the hell is it about TV that makes it so difficult for people to just STOP watching it? I know there are a few great shows and yes, I miss watching them sometimes. But I see people watch the ads with the same fascination as the actual shows and I can't even imagine why. I guess you get used to being bombarded by repetitive adverstising in your own home. But why bother?
*For those curious, those were: Iron Chef, Robot Wars, Samurai Jack, Star Trek TNG and.. well, I can't remember the fifth. Might've been Steve Irwin.
A made up word if you ask me. A series of formatted text-based documents that are traversed by an end user via hypertext links- wait...
What is 'hypertext'?
A made up word if you ask me...
Repeat until brain explodes. I hate to tell you this, but words enter (and leave) our language all the time. Your refusal to accept a new addition to it on account of the word being "made-up" shows you to be something of a pedant. You're not French, are you?
Every time something like this happens, it pushes large companies a step closer towards realizing that perhaps software patents are not an entirely Good Thing for the industry as a whole. And that means said large companies are one step closer to lobbying for software patent reform which, as we all know, is what it takes for any actual change to occur.
While many gamers are Windows users, very few Windows users are gamers. Unless the user is a gamer, the odds are good they'll never know there was a problem. If the user is a gamer, they're downloading the nVidia drivers from nVidia, and ignoring the older ones available on Windows Update.
You'd have to go clear out into the packing lot to avoid hearing it, though. Staring at the floor the entire way. Of course, even that might not work. The theater here has Dorito sticker-ads on the floor.
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Yeah, this is a big "holy shit" moment for VoIP groups. I can just _hear_ the landline and cell phone companies gurgling with glee.
Of course, whichever VoIP group gets a working solution (assuming any do before the deadline) will patent the concept of dialing 911 on VoIP, block all the others from implementing it and thus eliminate their competition within 120 days.
...and coal is composed primarily of carbon. The carbon involved in diamond formation can be inorganic or organic in nature. Any organic carbon, including that in coal, that is caught in a subduction zone may be turned into a diamond and blown out in kimberlite later.
And what do you know, there's even data to support that natural diamonds are composed heavily of organic carbon. You know, like coal.
Of course, squeezing a lump of coal until the carbon in it turned into diamond would probably result in a pretty impure diamond.
My wife feels the same way. She dislikes diamonds in general (lucky for me, eh?) but she's always said she'd wear artificial diamonds just for the geek factor. She said that wearing something that was formed by the ingenuity of mankind is a lot more impressive than something formed by the random forces of nature...
That gets it on the client systems, sure. But how do you keep a user from (for example) changing their proxy setting? With IE you can lock the user out via Group Policies. With Firefox, well.. I'm not aware of a way to implement similar restrictions.
It sounds like a Windows Server Administrator Template Policy would go a long way towards Firefox acceptance in corporate environments. You'd need some kind of plugin for Firefox that makes it read values from the Windows registry, as well.
Alternatively, a Firefox plugin could read the Group Policy restrictions targeted at IE, and "translate" them internally to the Firefox equivalents, but such a solution would be a sloppy hack at best.
Sorry, haven't been there in 3 years.
Texas, at least, has separate posted speed limits based on visibility, usually just day/night. Generally it's 70mph day, 55mph night.
Would be cool if the data becomes pirated.
And can you just imagine what IBM would do to the bloody, tattered remains of SCO if SCO allowed the source to be leaked?
Hell, all that needs to happen is for large chunks of the relevant code to begin appearing around the 'net. Whether an SCO screw up put them there or not, guess who's going to take the heat when IBM's lawyersharks hear about it?
Let it hurt sales. If it helps keep the screaming babies out of the theater, I'm all for it.
B... by Grapthar's hammer... what a savings.
The intonation of this line combined with the look on Alan Rickman's face is just perfect. He deserved some kind of award for that line alone...
I've always thought of Pi as being infinitely precise. Irrational is the correct term, but damn it, mine makes more sense.
Here's what's always made my head spin though:
There are infinitely many values between 3 and 4. Pi is one of them, and it is also irrational. There are many such irrational values between 3 and 4. In fact, there are an infinite number of irrational values between 3 and 4. There are also an infinite number of rational values between 3 and 4. 3 and 4 are part of the set of whole numbers.. which is infinite. But between any pair of whole numbers, you can find an infinite number of rational and irrational values. So... which infinity is bigger? It would seem that the infinite set of whole numbers is eclipsed by the infinite set of irrational and rational numbers _between_ each pair of whole numbers... arg.. and then thinking about the fact that every irrational number also stretches onto infinity...
brain.. leaking.. out.. ears...
No, but you can bet that any truly high-end brute-forcing system (such as those used by major world governments) would discover such patterns and decrypt the key much faster than if you used a RNG.
While I think you are being overly cynical (or perhaps not, alas) I also think that if the GPL is struck down here in the good old "Land of the Free"(TM) that this would not significantly slow its adoption world-wide. ... must... resist.. urge.. to quote Kenobi...
For crying out loud. It doesn't HAVE to be turtles all the way down.
Turtles don't have to stand on anything. Turtles swim.
If more religious fundamentalists were as rational in the presentation of their beliefs as you are here, there would be fewer problems in the world.
I disagree with you on almost every point you bring up, but it is your right to believe what you want. Thanks for presenting your point of view while respecting _my_ right to believe what I want.
I know how people hate to hear this, but if you don't commit the crime, you won't be hunted down.
Stop and think for a moment about your statement. You know that people hate to hear this. Did you ever wonder _why_? It's for the same reason that people hate the phrase "innocent people have nothing to fear from the police".
Police make mistakes; innocent people have served time. The police at least try their best to acertain guilt.
The MPAA/RIAA make no such attempts. They have filed suits against dead people, much less innocent ones. A lawsuit that goes to court at all already amounts to complete financial ruin for most people, regardless of the final verdict. Now you can go to jail for the crime of not being able to afford to fight your case in court.
The most amusing thing about all of this is that these infringements are already covered by copyright law. This legislation has no reason to exist other than as a scare tactic. It would have been cheaper (senators are expensive, after all) and probably more effective to put up posters saying "Don't share pre-releases or we'll send Guido over to break your kneecaps."
I was going to make some cynical, sarcastic comment on this but... damn, what's the point?
With everything going on today we're going to hunt down... filesharers? And sentence them like they've committed assault. Right.
The guiding hand of corporate bribes, excuse me, contributions, was never more obvious.
Budgies, parakeets and cockatiels will also imitate the phone ring, especially if your phone has a high-pitched (electronic) ringer. My parents' budgies would both do the "ring" sound, and then proceed to apparently fight each other to see who could do it louder.
On another note, what struck me as odd is that when a cockatiel learns new sounds, it's almost as if these "overwrite" certain reflexive noises. As a baby, the 'tiel would shriek or squawk when startled. As an adult, she will now make a particular learned sound, over and over and over, when she's startled or spooked. When she's hungry, she'll imitate the dryer buzzer. Essentially all of her "built-in" sounds have been replaced by learned ones.
Oooh, but that would take away from your time watching Survivor and The Apprentice. Perhaps the Cable company would even come and shut off your precious mind-numbing TV delivered drugs.
I have not had cable TV since 2002. My wife and I decided that as we watched all of about 5 shows regularly* that this didn't justify the massive amount of money it cost us to get it. Neither one of us could stand "network" television. So we canceled the cable TV. Our cable company immediately retaliated by raising our cable internet rates by $20, but what the hell, there's no other broadband available where I live and it's still cheaper than paying for the internet connection and the TV. The Gamecube, the DVD player, etc all provide plenty of work for the old idiot box.
Whenever either of us happens to mention that we don't watch TV, people generally react with complete disbelief. Some of the people I work with have entire conversations with each other that revolve around last night's episode of "Survivor" or "Who wants to marry an Asshole" and have nothing else to talk about.
--
Them: "Hey, did you see last night?"
Me: "Nope. Don't have cable."
Them: "... Oh. Uh. OH! You've got one of those dishes? They can't get the local channels right?"
Me: "Nope. I don't watch TV."
Them: "Well the dishes are actually really cheap, they've got a good deal going on-"
Me: "No, I mean I don't watch TV at home, by choice."
Them: "... Oh. Uh..." (the next question I always half-expect is "What DO you watch then?"
Me: "Did you see the new pictures from the Huygens probe? The one that landed on Titan?"
Them: "What show was that?"
--
Much as I'd like to say I made that conversation up, it actually happened a couple of months ago and it's certainly not the first time I've had one like that.
What the hell is it about TV that makes it so difficult for people to just STOP watching it? I know there are a few great shows and yes, I miss watching them sometimes. But I see people watch the ads with the same fascination as the actual shows and I can't even imagine why. I guess you get used to being bombarded by repetitive adverstising in your own home. But why bother?
*For those curious, those were: Iron Chef, Robot Wars, Samurai Jack, Star Trek TNG and.. well, I can't remember the fifth. Might've been Steve Irwin.
What is a 'website'?
A made up word if you ask me. A series of formatted text-based documents that are traversed by an end user via hypertext links- wait...
What is 'hypertext'?
A made up word if you ask me...
Repeat until brain explodes. I hate to tell you this, but words enter (and leave) our language all the time. Your refusal to accept a new addition to it on account of the word being "made-up" shows you to be something of a pedant. You're not French, are you?
Every time something like this happens, it pushes large companies a step closer towards realizing that perhaps software patents are not an entirely Good Thing for the industry as a whole. And that means said large companies are one step closer to lobbying for software patent reform which, as we all know, is what it takes for any actual change to occur.
They won't find it. Aziraphale "lost" it right about the time we left.
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I once wrote an article, showed it to a magazine and they said it was good but I have rewrite it if they were going to print it.
Fuck that, i'll just use a copy machine.
Rest in peace, Mitch. Rest in peace.
While many gamers are Windows users, very few Windows users are gamers. Unless the user is a gamer, the odds are good they'll never know there was a problem. If the user is a gamer, they're downloading the nVidia drivers from nVidia, and ignoring the older ones available on Windows Update.
You're supposed to keep those?
Oops.
You'd have to go clear out into the packing lot to avoid hearing it, though. Staring at the floor the entire way. Of course, even that might not work. The theater here has Dorito sticker-ads on the floor.