I wasn't sued, but I was one of the first to receive a cease and desist letter from them back in 1998. I was a student at Indiana University...
Holy Shit! I was working for UITS then!
You never would have talked to me about this, and I would have had nothing to do with reporting you, but damn, that makes it feel like a small world.
I was never even lightly punished by the university, but occasionally my manager would tell us "would you stop screwing around on Napster and try to do some work? I'm sitting right next to you for chrissake!"
I would support a law that required that every law that is passed comes with an automatic expiration date. Whole heartedly. Possible modification would be a two tiered system, where it will require a 2/3 majority for the longer lasting laws.
You mean like, honkies, spics, niggers, dune coons, prairie niggers, kykes, faggots, chinks, canucks, wops, guineas, krauts, and polocks? I think that's everybody anyway, my apologies if I left out any group, I try to be an equal opportunity offender, challenging people to be adults and get over their group identitied. Criticism welcome. Cowardly disapproval spurned.
No no no... Porch Monkey. It's okay, we're taking it back.
The US is awash in privately funded technology R&D toward exascale computing. While there is government funding, it is somewhat superfluous to the extent that US has a huge, well-funded private sector obsessed with massively scaling just about everything vaguely related to computing. That whole Internet-scale computing thing.
This. Huge.
A billion dollars can be a single contract for a large scale server farm/cluster in the US. Rare, yes, but, imagine, that can be a single contract between only two companies. If you think one of the companies isn't trying to make their product faster/better than the other guy, you're nuts.
Intel in 2010 spent over 6 billion dollars in R&D alone. You think none of that was to become faster?
I named the biggest (probably), but, that's just one of a LOT of companies. The nations spending on this are doing one of two things. Paying for planning and consolidation, or blowing a lot of smoke. I'm leaning towards the cynical "vote getting". To be fair, the EU is spending a lot, but a lot more of that goes to hookers and blow than the actual engineers working for companies like Intel have time for.
Sorry, abbreviated that, but, yeah, you're right. Very fair points. Theoretically, someday, maybe, but... It's pretty expensive, and technologically, they might be making the announcement a little prematurely.
2. No no wants to spend a week in an elevator even if it means you get to go into orbit. Christ I can barely make it to the 15th floor without some jackass farting. A whole week. Don't think so.
Orbit/space is another monster altogether. People will put up with a lot of stuff. And, really? One fart and you can't handle 15 floors? You're like the olfactory Princess on a Pea.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe the thing will be more like a rotating restaurant.
It's bullshit. It's always bullshit.
I dunno. So are most bids like this, but it's how the first transatlantic cable happened. Even though it was a dream, it worked.
I know it didn't actually happen but this reminds me of the adage about the Americans sending up astronauts with million dollar pens & the Russians sending up theirs with pencils.
Oddly enough, that's not true (even though it's a fun story). That sucker was developed by a private company with no funding from NASA (and the Russians used the exact same pen).
Go on...try and deny that they lost that one. You can't.
Yeah, but their money was still 240 pence to a pound. I haven't had to keep track of such weird monetary conversions since Dungeons and Dragons came out with the 2nd edition AD&D books. I sympathize. I regularly got screwed by merchants before the rule change!
Almost 14 years with a start up? I thought the new model was to resume build and jump, the sooner, the better.
Maybe it's different for people who get in that early.
I found a reference that indicates the number of C-5 And C-17s that the Air Force operates to be 316 (as of 2009). It seems odd that they would consider purchasing up to 600 tablet devices per airplane for the fleet.
It's fair to assume that at least a few of the planes are in the hangar for maintenance at any given moment, and on a regular schedule. If you had a company with a fleet of over 300 cars, you would be constantly cycling cars through the garage for regular maintenance as well.
There will be an immediate and HUGE problem of folks modding their cars to allow manual override.
That should be fun.
Actually, they'll probably all have the option to manually drive them straight out of the box. Think rural environments, dirt roads, navigating your way around a shipping container facility where no map in the world can be up to date enough to help the autonomous car. Also, no one will trust the first models enough to accept a car without the option.
Don't worry, they'll force their laws on your country, too with 'free trade' agreements and treaties..
The article indicates that this law/judgement was to comply with an international treaty. Something about works that were in the public domain in the US that were still copyrighted in other countries. Looks like this came to the US from the other side this time.
Doesn't make it make a lot of sense.
For the most part, your family history is a better predictor than any genome screening. Gene tests usually aren't useful unless you have a particular gene in your family and you want to find out whether you have it, like the BRCA genes for breast cancer. If your mother died of breast cancer at age 40 because of the BRCA1 gene, and you don't have the BRCA1 gene, you don't have to worry.
While I fully agree with this, I can see the potential value of screening for all genetic markers for disease at once, including the ones we are not aware of yet. "We think you're clear now, but there's a slight possibility of a future problem with bone-us eruptus. To make sure you're in the clear, we just need to test for this newly discovered genetic marker for... Oh... I see... You have... Well, 18th chromosome, 1017th pair... Okay, you're clear... Haha, yeah, I guess that would have been a stressful couple of days waiting for the test results! Well, enjoy the rest of your day."
Also, it'd be nice to have the complete sequence to yourself and off of your medical records, in case the insurance companies start looking for that stuff. Worried about a marker? Look it up yourself! You've already had the test!
No they can't, the EU regulates a minimum term copyright
Oh... I might have lost track of Ireland's reluctance to the European Constitution and any possible effect on copyright laws... But the point I found much more interesting was the possible retaliation of a sudden loss of tax immunity for some of the plaintiffs.
I suppose Ireland could retaliate by severely reducing the length of copyright protection...
But it would be almost as simple to just threaten to repeal this.
one of the oldest commercial Linux vendors at risk of shuttering on January 16
That's exactly one year to the day after I first arrived in Texas... Look out! Bad things come in threes!
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Please forgive me.)
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I wasn't sued, but I was one of the first to receive a cease and desist letter from them back in 1998. I was a student at Indiana University...
Holy Shit! I was working for UITS then!
You never would have talked to me about this, and I would have had nothing to do with reporting you, but damn, that makes it feel like a small world.
I was never even lightly punished by the university, but occasionally my manager would tell us "would you stop screwing around on Napster and try to do some work? I'm sitting right next to you for chrissake!"
I lost my job too. I'm making almost exactly the same as I was making in 2009. However, there has been some inflation since then.
On the upside, I like my new job a lot more, and it's difficult to put an price on that.
I would support a law that required that every law that is passed comes with an automatic expiration date. Whole heartedly. Possible modification would be a two tiered system, where it will require a 2/3 majority for the longer lasting laws.
Basement? Weird! In my house it's always localized entirely in the kitchen.
It doesn't matter what you think or how you feel.
What has been done is done, it isn't going away.
This attitude is part of the problem.
You mean like, honkies, spics, niggers, dune coons, prairie niggers, kykes, faggots, chinks, canucks, wops, guineas, krauts, and polocks? I think that's everybody anyway, my apologies if I left out any group, I try to be an equal opportunity offender, challenging people to be adults and get over their group identitied. Criticism welcome. Cowardly disapproval spurned.
No no no... Porch Monkey. It's okay, we're taking it back.
The US is awash in privately funded technology R&D toward exascale computing. While there is government funding, it is somewhat superfluous to the extent that US has a huge, well-funded private sector obsessed with massively scaling just about everything vaguely related to computing. That whole Internet-scale computing thing.
This. Huge.
A billion dollars can be a single contract for a large scale server farm/cluster in the US. Rare, yes, but, imagine, that can be a single contract between only two companies. If you think one of the companies isn't trying to make their product faster/better than the other guy, you're nuts.
Intel in 2010 spent over 6 billion dollars in R&D alone. You think none of that was to become faster?
I named the biggest (probably), but, that's just one of a LOT of companies. The nations spending on this are doing one of two things. Paying for planning and consolidation, or blowing a lot of smoke. I'm leaning towards the cynical "vote getting". To be fair, the EU is spending a lot, but a lot more of that goes to hookers and blow than the actual engineers working for companies like Intel have time for.
(a few entirely fair naysaying points)
Sorry, abbreviated that, but, yeah, you're right. Very fair points. Theoretically, someday, maybe, but... It's pretty expensive, and technologically, they might be making the announcement a little prematurely.
2. No no wants to spend a week in an elevator even if it means you get to go into orbit. Christ I can barely make it to the 15th floor without some jackass farting. A whole week. Don't think so.
Orbit/space is another monster altogether. People will put up with a lot of stuff. And, really? One fart and you can't handle 15 floors? You're like the olfactory Princess on a Pea.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe the thing will be more like a rotating restaurant.
It's bullshit. It's always bullshit.
I dunno. So are most bids like this, but it's how the first transatlantic cable happened. Even though it was a dream, it worked.
But I hope they do work out step 2.
I could not agree more, even though I cannot disagree at all with maxwell's cynicsism.
As an American, I honestly thought we lost our title of "Land of the Free" to you.
Well, you haven't been reading enough of the news from Canada. The frequent abuse of innocent people by the Human Rights Council would surprise you.
If you are just talking body count "legitimate" governments are responsible for more deaths than any other source.
Oh, certainly. Massive suffering requires massive organization. You know, for the good of the state.
People are talking about how Idiocracy was a documentary but if you watch it again Brazil is.
Thank god Hermes doesn't actually exist. That make it actually efficient enough to catch us all, even those of us that actually did something wrong.
I know it didn't actually happen but this reminds me of the adage about the Americans sending up astronauts with million dollar pens & the Russians sending up theirs with pencils.
Oddly enough, that's not true (even though it's a fun story). That sucker was developed by a private company with no funding from NASA (and the Russians used the exact same pen).
The Revolutionary War?
Go on...try and deny that they lost that one. You can't.
Yeah, but their money was still 240 pence to a pound. I haven't had to keep track of such weird monetary conversions since Dungeons and Dragons came out with the 2nd edition AD&D books. I sympathize. I regularly got screwed by merchants before the rule change!
Almost 14 years with a start up? I thought the new model was to resume build and jump, the sooner, the better. Maybe it's different for people who get in that early.
I found a reference that indicates the number of C-5 And C-17s that the Air Force operates to be 316 (as of 2009). It seems odd that they would consider purchasing up to 600 tablet devices per airplane for the fleet.
It's fair to assume that at least a few of the planes are in the hangar for maintenance at any given moment, and on a regular schedule. If you had a company with a fleet of over 300 cars, you would be constantly cycling cars through the garage for regular maintenance as well.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
Nice sig! She should get in business with my sister in Hawaii who works at a Batteries Plus.
There will be an immediate and HUGE problem of folks modding their cars to allow manual override. That should be fun.
Actually, they'll probably all have the option to manually drive them straight out of the box. Think rural environments, dirt roads, navigating your way around a shipping container facility where no map in the world can be up to date enough to help the autonomous car. Also, no one will trust the first models enough to accept a car without the option.
Don't worry, they'll force their laws on your country, too with 'free trade' agreements and treaties..
The article indicates that this law/judgement was to comply with an international treaty. Something about works that were in the public domain in the US that were still copyrighted in other countries. Looks like this came to the US from the other side this time. Doesn't make it make a lot of sense.
Finally Lindsay Lohan can be plotted on a graph.
I think you were thinking of this instead.
For the most part, your family history is a better predictor than any genome screening. Gene tests usually aren't useful unless you have a particular gene in your family and you want to find out whether you have it, like the BRCA genes for breast cancer. If your mother died of breast cancer at age 40 because of the BRCA1 gene, and you don't have the BRCA1 gene, you don't have to worry.
While I fully agree with this, I can see the potential value of screening for all genetic markers for disease at once, including the ones we are not aware of yet. "We think you're clear now, but there's a slight possibility of a future problem with bone-us eruptus. To make sure you're in the clear, we just need to test for this newly discovered genetic marker for... Oh... I see... You have... Well, 18th chromosome, 1017th pair... Okay, you're clear... Haha, yeah, I guess that would have been a stressful couple of days waiting for the test results! Well, enjoy the rest of your day." Also, it'd be nice to have the complete sequence to yourself and off of your medical records, in case the insurance companies start looking for that stuff. Worried about a marker? Look it up yourself! You've already had the test!
No they can't, the EU regulates a minimum term copyright
Oh... I might have lost track of Ireland's reluctance to the European Constitution and any possible effect on copyright laws... But the point I found much more interesting was the possible retaliation of a sudden loss of tax immunity for some of the plaintiffs.
Or, what I actually MEANT to post... THIS! (damn, I need to preview better)
I suppose Ireland could retaliate by severely reducing the length of copyright protection... But it would be almost as simple to just threaten to repeal this.
one of the oldest commercial Linux vendors at risk of shuttering on January 16
That's exactly one year to the day after I first arrived in Texas... Look out! Bad things come in threes! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Please forgive me.)
Until something goes horribly wrong. Then someone you probably don't like very much will get your eyes.
Hey, we're not unreasonable. No one's gonna get your eyes.