As for drywallers? I guess this is a US thing, everything is brick or breezeblock over here.
Yup. I worked with a guy that got "caught short" at the top of a couple of stories of scaffolding after a hard night on the Guinness. Rather than climb all the way down and head over to the other side of the site where the bathroom* was, he stuffed some paper in the top breezeblock in the wall next to him and dropped one in. Another layer of paper and Presto! Someone now has a petrified turd in their new wall...
*bathroom - absolutely a misnomer! On this site it consisted of old porcelain toilet placed over an opened sewer cover and surrounded by a curtain! With a hose beside it for manual flushing! (Don't get me started on the f**ker who gave the newbie some fibreglass insulation to wipe with...)
I thought Tarantella was already taken as another piece of software's name?
Tarantella is written by SCO. As it's pretty much all that was left after the Caldera deal, and because it was already a separate business unit, SCO are quite sensibly killing off the SCO brand and going with Tarantella Inc.
You mean other than the fact that, if you try to dump 5.5 million shares of any stock, it will go in the crapper?;)
Good point! ("A GoodPoint for GoodPint" - boom boom!!:) ) As it happens 1.3 million were by private transaction, so it wouldn't really affect the share price. But I wonder who was the poor bastard that got stiffed on the other side of that deal?!
Back in January Microsoft off-loaded over five and a half million shares of SCOC for over $100,000,000 (at approx $21 a share - it's now $3.25 - $3.50). Yahoo Insider Deals for SCOC
this means that our trusty german friends can unbundle and export the source back to us NICE!!
Ehmm, unbundling just means they can separately sell the copies of Windows that usually ship only with a PC. It doesn't mean they can decompile the software.
There's a dancing machine in a bar/arcade called "Barcode" in Times Square in New York.
Don't know if it's one of the originals or not. I thought it looked kind of lame, but then I saw people try to use it and I gained a whole new level of respect! It appears that rhythm isn't a natural human right!
From the article "This operating system, according to Mark Padgett of VTech/Helio, will be a modified Linux kernel -- the first of its kind to run on a PDA." and "[...] VTech/Helio is making a bold move in this surge towards providing the Linux community with its first PDA running a Linux kernel."
Is that true? I thought Linux was up on the Palm already. At least it is according to the guys at uClinux. They must mean first to run Linux on standard hardware.
Exactly! In fact Kevin Kelly goes further again. He looks at the idea that when you put together large numbers of agents (software or hardware) in that way, emergent behaviour can develop. What that behaviour will be can't be determined from the properties of an individual unit. It keeps coming back to the bees and the hive example. If you take a hive as an entity, it exhibits properties that are separate from those of any individual bee - that only show themselves when hundreds of bees each play a small part.
My favourite project of theirs has to be the software they're working on to control robotic "swarms". The robots communicate using infrared, and the system is designed to tolerate loss of individual units while being very scaleable (10k units).
It reminds me a lot of Kevin Kelly's (ex-editor of Wired) book "Out of Control:The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World" which discusses the impact biology will probably have on technology.
"The Adfu ad system has been replaced with a small Apache module written in C for better performance, and that too will be open sourced When It's Ready (tm). This was done to make things consistant across all of Andover.Net (I personally prefer Adfu, but since I'm not the one who has to read the reports and maintain the list of ads, I don't really care what Slashdot runs)."
Time for a new thinkgeek sticker? - "Go away, or I will replace you with a small apache module"
Any chance this was leaked so that evidence could be produced in court that DeCSS was responsible for breach of copyright? (A couple of copies of The Matrix downloaded off the web should do the job.)
there is a whole lot of whining going on because people don't really feel like paying for music
I really agree with you on this point. However I think you have a misconception about what copyright is. You say artists should be able to opt-out of such a copyright/license and give their music away and/or distribute by whatever means they like. Well you've just described the very rights that copyrights give to an artist. When someone authors a work they have copyright in it by nature of the fact that they created it. It's up to them to decide how and on what terms that work is distributed to others.
If they want to give it away for free they can. If they want to charge for it they can. Copyright gives them the means to enforce this, by preventing others from distributing the work.
If I choose to give my work away, copyright works to stop others from charging for it. (For example, it allows the creator of a level for QuakeIII to stop someone from putting that level on a CD and charging money for it.) On the other hand, if I decide to charge for my work, then copyright works to prevent others from giving it away for free. (And ensures that if they do, then they must pay me.)
Copyright is not an inherently bad thing. It is a tool that allows an artist to determine how their work will be distributed. If you don't agree with those terms then either ask the artist to change them, or don't consume their work.
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Anyway, doesn't this 'company' you speak of truly care more about their shareholdrs than about it's customers' satisfaction?
To take that further, aren't they legally obliged to hold their shareholder's interests above those of their customers...
The first model hired to play her was Rhona Mitra. Then Nell McAndrew took over, and after hypeing herself up with the free publicity promptly blew it by appearing in Playboy (UK). Eidos/CORE immediately got a court injunction against Playboy forcing them to pull the magazine to put stickers on the cover to block out the words "Tomb Raider's Lara Croft - Nude!". (Trademark infringement IIRC.)
Somehow I forgot to work in jokes about our 2-dollar bills (isn't there an American saying "phoney as a 2-dollar bill"?).
There is a US two dollar bill! I worked in a diner in New York (Hello Montauk!) and whenever the waitresses received any, they kept them as souveniers.
If this allows the mind (spirit) to live on after your corporeal form has rotted away (departed) from this earth, then will we have achieved heaven on earth?
Presumably external stimuli will have to be provided through some interface with the external world. Thus you will "see", "hear", "taste" and "touch" etc based on what is fed to you by the storage machine's interface.
If so, "fake" stimuli would be able to put you in any situation you desired. Add a little feedback mechanism and you can create you're own personal version of heaven, and change it at will!
In the past, no matter how immersed one became in a gaming experience, it wasn't possible to mistake it for reality - even if you wanted to.
Improving computer graphics technology, along with a host of other technological advances (such as tactile feedback), is pushing us towards a date with "total immersion" virtual reality systems.
Do you think this statement is true, and if not why not?
And more importantly (from a sociological perspective), do you think it's desirable?
Will id still be producing gibfests when the marines look, feel and act real?
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Yup. I worked with a guy that got "caught short" at the top of a couple of stories of scaffolding after a hard night on the Guinness. Rather than climb all the way down and head over to the other side of the site where the bathroom* was, he stuffed some paper in the top breezeblock in the wall next to him and dropped one in. Another layer of paper and Presto! Someone now has a petrified turd in their new wall...
*bathroom - absolutely a misnomer! On this site it consisted of old porcelain toilet placed over an opened sewer cover and surrounded by a curtain! With a hose beside it for manual flushing! (Don't get me started on the f**ker who gave the newbie some fibreglass insulation to wipe with...)
Here's the link... A Story About Magic
Tarantella is written by SCO. As it's pretty much all that was left after the Caldera deal, and because it was already a separate business unit, SCO are quite sensibly killing off the SCO brand and going with Tarantella Inc.
I do indeed know. The story wasn't posted quite as I submitted it... :)
Good point! ("A GoodPoint for GoodPint" - boom boom!! :) )
As it happens 1.3 million were by private transaction, so it wouldn't really affect the share price. But I wonder who was the poor bastard that got stiffed on the other side of that deal?!
What did they know that other people didn't? ;o)
GoodPint
Ehmm, unbundling just means they can separately sell the copies of Windows that usually ship only with a PC. It doesn't mean they can decompile the software.
Damnit, I just can't remember where I've seen/heard this before! Where's it from again?
Don't know if it's one of the originals or not. I thought it looked kind of lame, but then I saw people try to use it and I gained a whole new level of respect! It appears that rhythm isn't a natural human right!
GoodPint
See www.cooltext.com for an example.
Is that true? I thought Linux was up on the Palm already. At least it is according to the guys at uClinux. They must mean first to run Linux on standard hardware.
GoodPint
Exactly! In fact Kevin Kelly goes further again. He looks at the idea that when you put together large numbers of agents (software or hardware) in that way, emergent behaviour can develop. What that behaviour will be can't be determined from the properties of an individual unit. It keeps coming back to the bees and the hive example. If you take a hive as an entity, it exhibits properties that are separate from those of any individual bee - that only show themselves when hundreds of bees each play a small part.
GoodPint
It reminds me a lot of Kevin Kelly's (ex-editor of Wired) book "Out of Control :The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World" which discusses the impact biology will probably have on technology.
GoodPint
"The Adfu ad system has been replaced with a small Apache module written in C for better performance, and that too will be open sourced When It's Ready (tm). This was done to make things consistant across all of Andover.Net (I personally prefer Adfu, but since I'm not the one who has to read the reports and maintain the list of ads, I don't really care what Slashdot runs)."
Time for a new thinkgeek sticker? - "Go away, or I will replace you with a small apache module"
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I really agree with you on this point. However I think you have a misconception about what copyright is. You say artists should be able to opt-out of such a copyright/license and give their music away and/or distribute by whatever means they like. Well you've just described the very rights that copyrights give to an artist. When someone authors a work they have copyright in it by nature of the fact that they created it. It's up to them to decide how and on what terms that work is distributed to others.
If they want to give it away for free they can. If they want to charge for it they can. Copyright gives them the means to enforce this, by preventing others from distributing the work.
If I choose to give my work away, copyright works to stop others from charging for it. (For example, it allows the creator of a level for QuakeIII to stop someone from putting that level on a CD and charging money for it.) On the other hand, if I decide to charge for my work, then copyright works to prevent others from giving it away for free. (And ensures that if they do, then they must pay me.)
Copyright is not an inherently bad thing. It is a tool that allows an artist to determine how their work will be distributed. If you don't agree with those terms then either ask the artist to change them, or don't consume their work.
GoodPint
To take that further, aren't they legally obliged to hold their shareholder's interests above those of their customers...
GoodPint
The first model hired to play her was Rhona Mitra. Then Nell McAndrew took over, and after hypeing herself up with the free publicity promptly blew it by appearing in Playboy (UK). Eidos/CORE immediately got a court injunction against Playboy forcing them to pull the magazine to put stickers on the cover to block out the words "Tomb Raider's Lara Croft - Nude!". (Trademark infringement IIRC.)
There is a US two dollar bill! I worked in a diner in New York (Hello Montauk!) and whenever the waitresses received any, they kept them as souveniers.
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That's what happens when I edit text without re-reading it correctly!
GoodPint.
(Whose personal favourite is misuse of the word "literally"!)
Presumably external stimuli will have to be provided through some interface with the external world. Thus you will "see", "hear", "taste" and "touch" etc based on what is fed to you by the storage machine's interface.
If so, "fake" stimuli would be able to put you in any situation you desired. Add a little feedback mechanism and you can create you're own personal version of heaven, and change it at will!
Strike me down with a lightning bolt!
GoodPint
Can anyone point me to an online list of US trademarks so I can check if various domains are trademarked or not?
Thanks, GoodPint.
Improving computer graphics technology, along with a host of other technological advances (such as tactile feedback), is pushing us towards a date with "total immersion" virtual reality systems.
Do you think this statement is true, and if not why not?
And more importantly (from a sociological perspective), do you think it's desirable?
Will id still be producing gibfests when the marines look, feel and act real?
Thanks, Goodpint.