ahh.. I see the patent was filed in '98.. bummer. Does my idea still count if I came up with it on my own, before the patent was granted? Or am I now shafted, and will I have to pay royalties if I take my idea to the market?
I'm serious.. I came up with a concept quite similar to that almost a year ago, and have been working on it since. I don't really have anything I want to show yet, but I do have a working model. Take into consideration that I had to learn several new things to get started, not to mention my inability to motivate myself;)
What if I wanted to take my idea to the market, and make some money with it? Would IBM feed me a shaft, or what? What can I do about it?
2.4.7, eh? I'm still on 2.2.19 - that's where it's at. Just like I stayed in the 2.0 series long after the release of 2.2. I'm ub3r elite.
I'm actually just too busy (lazy) to bother dealing with the new firewall system. Someone will probably reply to me to point out the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about, which just emphasizes my lazyness - I haven't really even looked into the 2.4 branch:P
I've been using Slackware for 5-6 years now, and have absolutely no desire to use any other distro. I recently got a job as an admin for a system running preinstalled RedHat. All I have to say is that RedHat is the worst POS I've encountered. Preconfigured system and packages are just a pain in the ass. I now have to find several packages with specific configurations to replace the preconfigured/preinstalled ones because their configuration do not meet my needs. Using Slackware, I just configure and compile everything I need. This allows me to build a proper configuration; I don't have to configure and build my system around terrible prepackaged BS. Should I ever need to uninstall, it couldn't be easier. I install everything in its own directory so I just rm -rf/usr/local/programname.
It'll be a cold day in hell when I stop using Slackware.
After having applied to several universities for Computer Science admission, I then toured around Ontario (Canada) going to look at each university. I had read in the various information booklets each university sent me that they're "keeping up with the fast-paced industry of tomorrow" or some synergetic BS like that. In order to do this, they now use Java almost exclusively when dealing with programming. Although I have no experience with Java, I found this fact odd. I was sure that C, or even C++ would be beter suited for the task of general programming references and what not. Java seemed more like something that could be a second, third, or fourth year elective.
SO, wanting an answer to "Why Java?", I thought I'd ask the Profs. of Computer Science while touring the University of Waterloo - which supposedly has the most superior CS program in the Country, and is world renowned (which I feel is grossly over-exaggerated). So I ask the profs "Why Java?", and they quickly respond "Because that is where the industry is moving." I immediatly knew I didn't want to go to U of Waterloo (which was later reaffirmed by the math nerds charging into the auditorium singing "m-a, m-a-t, m-a-t-h, math rocks!")
Anyhow, I figure any university who teaches something primarily (and it must be primarily, since that was their first and only answer) because the "industry" is doing it, is a university unworthy of my time, energy, and hard earned dollars.
I say forget about the fucking industry. Teach me the fundamentals (which I don't believe Java is the proper tool for), teach me the theory (see previous parentheses), and I will adapt. You don't need to be taught to use Java - or any other language for that matter - to know how to program. Understanding the language, its syntax, and other characteristics is trivial. It's knowing how to properly design a program and decide which tools are the best to implement your solution that matters.
This approach of Java because the industry is doing it is indeed a disservice. Maybe not to those of us that have experience going into university, but to other students fairly new to programming or even computers in general. Using Java all the time will produce graduates who think Java is the best and the only way.
I find it difficult to believe that industry is moving into Java a whole lot. I have yet to see a large Java project/product. I find it difficult to believe that any business would overlook other languages if an applicant knew Java. And I would find it very difficult to believe that any business would hire a graduate from an establishment that teaches Java because that's the direction in which industry is moving.
You must abuse your systems something fierce. Everything in my frist computer (386 sx/20, ~ 1990/1991) still works. I have a couple other systems at least 5 years old, and if I never stuck a screwdriver in an MCA slot while the power was on, my 286 from '88 would still be working too.
This thing kind of defeats the purpose of encryption which is to KEEP THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY BUSINESS. (and any other nosy bastards.) This whole governtment intervention deal is a little to 1984ish for me.
I don't think that Linus meant Mundie stinks in the literal sense of how he smells. But that he causes a "stink". ex: Mundie, with his comments, upsets a room of people far greater than a dead corpse would.
Would it be of any assistance to setup something similar to distributed.net or seti, and just have people designate their idle cycles to processing all sorts of genetic interactions. For example, combining human DNA with DNA of other creatures to provide cures for various diseases. It'd be interesting to cross some human DNA with that of a lizard and get some regeneration action goin on (ala spiderman -- the doctor dude who turns into an alligator when it's least convenient.;)
Ring tone tunes not copy written anyway??
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If I'm not mistaken, all the ring tones I've heard are from tunes which are so old that they no longer have copyrights. I'm talking about small clips from Bach or Mozart, even the "Jingle Bells" tune.
Who has these copyrights on the ring tones anyway?
Although Microsoft may not be targetting individual users, perhaps that's something they might consider. For all those prizes, I may be willing to run a Microsoft OS on at least one of my PCs. I'd be more than happy to be paid to run an MS OS. In fact, with all the time I've lost dealing with their OSen and all the problems associated with them, I think they *should* be paying me to run their OS!;)
If they started doing this, they'd beat free software hands down (in terms of price, anyway.) Not only could you freely obtain MS software, but MS would be paying you to do so!
Didn't anyone see that episode of the Lone Gunmen a couple weeks ago where they hunted down a water powered car? Just pour any ol' glass o' water in the tank and away she goes.
Wouldn't THAT be nice..
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Around a year ago I remember reading an article on/. about a beowulf cluster where 10b2 was used to keep costs down.
I don't think the actual car would crash because of NT. But there would be problems on the assembly line. And since NT is controlling the rides directly (as opposed to your lame auto manufacturing comparison) and not directly controlling cars, then it's likely something could happen to a person, rather just a pre-assembled car.
If it's based on the Windows 2000 code, I don't know how they can call it stable. I've used W2k on several different computers, and on each one it crashes more than W98 on my machine. My father got a brand new system with W2k, and it's slower than my 2 year old system running W98. A buddy of mine got a brand new computer with W2k, blue screen first time he turns it on, if it manages to boot, it crashes within minutes, constantly freezes up, not to mention it's frustratingly slow. Windows is bull shit, and won't get any better short of a brand new operating system, but I guess then it wouldn't be Windows.
Honestly, the only reason anyone could get excited about a new release of Windows is because it's the only choice they've got when they get a new computer. Sure, Open Source Software and Linux and everything else has come a long way, but it really isn't a choice yet.
When will anybody see the light?
Not really. R rated (18 years+) movies are in amongst the rest of the movies, but I believe X rated movies must be in a separate room, although I'm not sure if they have to be. I've only been to one store that does that. Blockbuster and Rogers Video don't rent X rated films. At local convenience stores, X rated movies are in with the rest of them, but they're on the top shelf, and are covered with another box that says something along the lines of "Adult Movie".
Thing is, all movies go through Canada's own rating board, and alot of the movies that would be R rated in the States are only 14A here. It's the whole language/violence thing that we saw in South Park the Movie. I suppose that wouldn't apply to games much, because language really isn't an issue. They're either bloody violent, or there's no violence at all.
The guy who posted about the NDP trying frantically to get some votes was right. This probably won't happen.
As several people have already mentioned, use solar power. Electrolysis doesn't take much energy, so you could use solar power to seperate large vats of dihydrogen monoxide.
Hell, get your ass on a converted exercise bike and earn the gas you'll be using the next day. Kill two birds with one stone.
I remember seeing articles and discussions about open source hardware here on/. With this process, such an idea could easily come to fruition. People could develop their own platforms based on their own model, or a model they downloaded and modified to their ends.
Just like GNU or BSD software, and what have you.
Of course, there'll be the shareware hardware, where someone will want to charge $15 for crap that doesn't work. Imagine the license agreement - "Please send $15 to: xxx, or this hardware will self-destruct in 30 days."
But really, the open source hardware idea would work here. People with an interest in hardware could really get down to the nitty gritty and see how things work.
"Pirates Steal Negative $1,400,000,000 from Music Industry."
If pirates stole a negative amount of money, that would mean they paid 1,400,000,000 to the Music Industry.
That article is on the same robots. Take a look at one of the pictures, it's of the robot in front of the ruler, which you can also see in the mpeg from todays "news".
I assume the lawsuits were brought to being because of some stolen designs which were patented. They've got all the right in the world to bring it to court. So what if it's "just" a computer fan, it's patented design, and Sunonwealth is within their rights. The infringement of such patents could cause actual finacial loss, among other things.
At least it's not something we've all come to despise like Amazon's bullshit one click patent, and the countless other patents we've seen reported on/. that have no legitimacy as patents.
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ahh.. I see the patent was filed in '98.. bummer. Does my idea still count if I came up with it on my own, before the patent was granted? Or am I now shafted, and will I have to pay royalties if I take my idea to the market?
I'm serious.. I came up with a concept quite similar to that almost a year ago, and have been working on it since. I don't really have anything I want to show yet, but I do have a working model. Take into consideration that I had to learn several new things to get started, not to mention my inability to motivate myself ;)
What if I wanted to take my idea to the market, and make some money with it? Would IBM feed me a shaft, or what? What can I do about it?
2.4.7, eh? I'm still on 2.2.19 - that's where it's at. Just like I stayed in the 2.0 series long after the release of 2.2. I'm ub3r elite. :P
I'm actually just too busy (lazy) to bother dealing with the new firewall system. Someone will probably reply to me to point out the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about, which just emphasizes my lazyness - I haven't really even looked into the 2.4 branch
I've been using Slackware for 5-6 years now, and have absolutely no desire to use any other distro. I recently got a job as an admin for a system running preinstalled RedHat. All I have to say is that RedHat is the worst POS I've encountered. Preconfigured system and packages are just a pain in the ass. I now have to find several packages with specific configurations to replace the preconfigured/preinstalled ones because their configuration do not meet my needs. Using Slackware, I just configure and compile everything I need. This allows me to build a proper configuration; I don't have to configure and build my system around terrible prepackaged BS. Should I ever need to uninstall, it couldn't be easier. I install everything in its own directory so I just rm -rf /usr/local/programname.
It'll be a cold day in hell when I stop using Slackware.
After having applied to several universities for Computer Science admission, I then toured around Ontario (Canada) going to look at each university. I had read in the various information booklets each university sent me that they're "keeping up with the fast-paced industry of tomorrow" or some synergetic BS like that. In order to do this, they now use Java almost exclusively when dealing with programming. Although I have no experience with Java, I found this fact odd. I was sure that C, or even C++ would be beter suited for the task of general programming references and what not. Java seemed more like something that could be a second, third, or fourth year elective.
SO, wanting an answer to "Why Java?", I thought I'd ask the Profs. of Computer Science while touring the University of Waterloo - which supposedly has the most superior CS program in the Country, and is world renowned (which I feel is grossly over-exaggerated). So I ask the profs "Why Java?", and they quickly respond "Because that is where the industry is moving." I immediatly knew I didn't want to go to U of Waterloo (which was later reaffirmed by the math nerds charging into the auditorium singing "m-a, m-a-t, m-a-t-h, math rocks!")
Anyhow, I figure any university who teaches something primarily (and it must be primarily, since that was their first and only answer) because the "industry" is doing it, is a university unworthy of my time, energy, and hard earned dollars.
I say forget about the fucking industry. Teach me the fundamentals (which I don't believe Java is the proper tool for), teach me the theory (see previous parentheses), and I will adapt. You don't need to be taught to use Java - or any other language for that matter - to know how to program. Understanding the language, its syntax, and other characteristics is trivial. It's knowing how to properly design a program and decide which tools are the best to implement your solution that matters.
This approach of Java because the industry is doing it is indeed a disservice. Maybe not to those of us that have experience going into university, but to other students fairly new to programming or even computers in general. Using Java all the time will produce graduates who think Java is the best and the only way.
I find it difficult to believe that industry is moving into Java a whole lot. I have yet to see a large Java project/product. I find it difficult to believe that any business would overlook other languages if an applicant knew Java. And I would find it very difficult to believe that any business would hire a graduate from an establishment that teaches Java because that's the direction in which industry is moving.
Since when was there an "Atomic Energy" merit badge? Never heard of that one when I was in scouts.
You must abuse your systems something fierce. Everything in my frist computer (386 sx/20, ~ 1990/1991) still works. I have a couple other systems at least 5 years old, and if I never stuck a screwdriver in an MCA slot while the power was on, my 286 from '88 would still be working too.
Cheggit out, here's the picture of the first computer bug ever:
Debugged.
This thing kind of defeats the purpose of encryption which is to KEEP THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY BUSINESS. (and any other nosy bastards.) This whole governtment intervention deal is a little to 1984ish for me.
I read a really nice article about this in Popular Science YEARS ago.
I don't think that Linus meant Mundie stinks in the literal sense of how he smells. But that he causes a "stink". ex: Mundie, with his comments, upsets a room of people far greater than a dead corpse would.
Would it be of any assistance to setup something similar to distributed.net or seti, and just have people designate their idle cycles to processing all sorts of genetic interactions. For example, combining human DNA with DNA of other creatures to provide cures for various diseases. It'd be interesting to cross some human DNA with that of a lizard and get some regeneration action goin on (ala spiderman -- the doctor dude who turns into an alligator when it's least convenient. ;)
If I'm not mistaken, all the ring tones I've heard are from tunes which are so old that they no longer have copyrights. I'm talking about small clips from Bach or Mozart, even the "Jingle Bells" tune.
Who has these copyrights on the ring tones anyway?
Although Microsoft may not be targetting individual users, perhaps that's something they might consider. For all those prizes, I may be willing to run a Microsoft OS on at least one of my PCs. I'd be more than happy to be paid to run an MS OS. In fact, with all the time I've lost dealing with their OSen and all the problems associated with them, I think they *should* be paying me to run their OS! ;)
If they started doing this, they'd beat free software hands down (in terms of price, anyway.) Not only could you freely obtain MS software, but MS would be paying you to do so!
Didn't anyone see that episode of the Lone Gunmen a couple weeks ago where they hunted down a water powered car? Just pour any ol' glass o' water in the tank and away she goes.
Wouldn't THAT be nice..
Around a year ago I remember reading an article on /. about a beowulf cluster where 10b2 was used to keep costs down.
I don't think the actual car would crash because of NT. But there would be problems on the assembly line. And since NT is controlling the rides directly (as opposed to your lame auto manufacturing comparison) and not directly controlling cars, then it's likely something could happen to a person, rather just a pre-assembled car.
If it's based on the Windows 2000 code, I don't know how they can call it stable. I've used W2k on several different computers, and on each one it crashes more than W98 on my machine. My father got a brand new system with W2k, and it's slower than my 2 year old system running W98. A buddy of mine got a brand new computer with W2k, blue screen first time he turns it on, if it manages to boot, it crashes within minutes, constantly freezes up, not to mention it's frustratingly slow. Windows is bull shit, and won't get any better short of a brand new operating system, but I guess then it wouldn't be Windows.
Honestly, the only reason anyone could get excited about a new release of Windows is because it's the only choice they've got when they get a new computer. Sure, Open Source Software and Linux and everything else has come a long way, but it really isn't a choice yet.
When will anybody see the light?
Not really. R rated (18 years+) movies are in amongst the rest of the movies, but I believe X rated movies must be in a separate room, although I'm not sure if they have to be. I've only been to one store that does that. Blockbuster and Rogers Video don't rent X rated films. At local convenience stores, X rated movies are in with the rest of them, but they're on the top shelf, and are covered with another box that says something along the lines of "Adult Movie".
Thing is, all movies go through Canada's own rating board, and alot of the movies that would be R rated in the States are only 14A here. It's the whole language/violence thing that we saw in South Park the Movie. I suppose that wouldn't apply to games much, because language really isn't an issue. They're either bloody violent, or there's no violence at all.
The guy who posted about the NDP trying frantically to get some votes was right. This probably won't happen.
As several people have already mentioned, use solar power. Electrolysis doesn't take much energy, so you could use solar power to seperate large vats of dihydrogen monoxide.
Hell, get your ass on a converted exercise bike and earn the gas you'll be using the next day. Kill two birds with one stone.
I remember seeing articles and discussions about open source hardware here on /. With this process, such an idea could easily come to fruition. People could develop their own platforms based on their own model, or a model they downloaded and modified to their ends.
Just like GNU or BSD software, and what have you.
Of course, there'll be the shareware hardware, where someone will want to charge $15 for crap that doesn't work. Imagine the license agreement - "Please send $15 to: xxx, or this hardware will self-destruct in 30 days."
But really, the open source hardware idea would work here. People with an interest in hardware could really get down to the nitty gritty and see how things work.
haha, nice signature..
does it work?
"Pirates Steal Negative $1,400,000,000 from Music Industry." If pirates stole a negative amount of money, that would mean they paid 1,400,000,000 to the Music Industry.
That article is on the same robots. Take a look at one of the pictures, it's of the robot in front of the ruler, which you can also see in the mpeg from todays "news".
I assume the lawsuits were brought to being because of some stolen designs which were patented. They've got all the right in the world to bring it to court. So what if it's "just" a computer fan, it's patented design, and Sunonwealth is within their rights. The infringement of such patents could cause actual finacial loss, among other things. /. that have no legitimacy as patents.
At least it's not something we've all come to despise like Amazon's bullshit one click patent, and the countless other patents we've seen reported on