I find it very ironic that geeks are among the most afraid of the implications of technology. We made the recognition software, yet we hate it the most and believe in it the least.
I can imagine that there's a 2600 game that's perfect for every type of phone call. Girlfriend just call to break up? Pitfall. Boss call you back to work? Cobra Command. Trying to figure out some complicated rendezvous? Raiders of the lost arc....
You mentioned the thylacine, a.k.a. the Tazmanian Tiger. They actually have a fetal specimine preserved...I bet it won't be long until they are able to clone it.
Also, I saw a nice conspiracy show that claimed that there are actually a few left in the wild.
Read the law before you go making stupid comments like this one. Your uninformed post is what makes people think/. is stupid.
One of the things that the DMCA provides for is that ISP's have to take notice from copyright holders regarding materials being pirated via their services and take reasonable action to stop it.
The difference in this case is that the owner of the "sucks" domain *intended* for the site to be a place where people could complain. On the other hand, the people who lost their "sucks" cases had been found to just be in it for the money; i.e. buying it to get the trademark holder to buy it back from them.
That would be bad too. It's especially worse that MS has a reputation for unethical business practices. If you don't find that reputation to be true...go back to zdnet:)
I was going to flame you and say that there are enough legitimate reasons to send around exe's in a University envrionment that your suggestion would be intrusive. But, upon further consideration, anybody who was sending an executable for a letitimate reason is probablly l337 enough to zip it anyway:)
They're just bitter at California for stealing their power, so they're putting the squeeze on California's most precious treasure: Spammers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HInternet Startups
Smart companies know that immediate profit isn't the end-all of strategy. I'm not saying that they have definately made the wrong move, but you shouldn't dismiss the idea that keeping the database running for free is a smart business move. See "reputation" and "respect".
I don't know anything about seagate's web product, so I can't say. A big selling point of the Parallel crystal stuff is the sweet PDF generation that it does, which seagate can't come close to matching.
The company I interned at last summer, Dynalivery, focuses on web based reporting. Their main product is an enhancement to crystal reports called parallel crystal which makes it into a "web application." Not sure if their product is exactly what you're looking for, and I need to study for finals instead of actually reading your slashdot post fully, but I thought I'd suggest it.
I'm told that The University of North Texas and UW have good gaming stuff going on. I'd investigate further and come up with better URL's, but then all hopes of getting this post moded up would fade because it'd be too late, and I am a whore!
This was driven into my skull by constant repetition by my advisor at University, while I was working on my maths degree. Learn the definitions. Memorise them! That's ninety percent of the work. The remaining ten percent can be split evenly by the acquisition of precise compositional style and by the ability to recognise the application of definitions -- this being the lateral thinking I mentioned above.
If 90% of the work you spent on learning mathematics was memorizing definitions, then I think your undergraduate university wasted a lot of your time.
I am a graduated math major as well; I called myself a "math major" because AFAIAC, it's for life:)
This is like saying the best way for newbies to understand a C++ program is for them to decompile it and look at the assembly!
There is no way to short-circut the "years of hard work" involved in understanding higher-level mathematics. I know it's the holy grail of CS geeks everywhere to streamline the hard work of understanding proofs, but mathematical decompilation is not the answer.
Being a liberal, I would have a hard time noticing any bias in PBS programming. Do any conservatives read slashdot? If so, is PBS biased in your opinion?
I think most people would agree that unbiased public television is a good thing(TM) for our country, but if a large portion of people in the audience think that PBS and seasame street are really some sort of homosexual mind control (that is not meant to be flaimbait, people really think that) then how can spending lots of tax payer dollars on it be justified?
Slashdot Mirror
I find it very ironic that geeks are among the most afraid of the implications of technology. We made the recognition software, yet we hate it the most and believe in it the least.
...dontchathink?
I can imagine that there's a 2600 game that's perfect for every type of phone call. Girlfriend just call to break up? Pitfall. Boss call you back to work? Cobra Command. Trying to figure out some complicated rendezvous? Raiders of the lost arc....
You mentioned the thylacine, a.k.a. the Tazmanian Tiger. They actually have a fetal specimine preserved...I bet it won't be long until they are able to clone it.
Also, I saw a nice conspiracy show that claimed that there are actually a few left in the wild.
Read the law before you go making stupid comments like this one. Your uninformed post is what makes people think /. is stupid.
One of the things that the DMCA provides for is that ISP's have to take notice from copyright holders regarding materials being pirated via their services and take reasonable action to stop it.
The difference in this case is that the owner of the "sucks" domain *intended* for the site to be a place where people could complain. On the other hand, the people who lost their "sucks" cases had been found to just be in it for the money; i.e. buying it to get the trademark holder to buy it back from them.
I tend to agree with the distinction.
...it'd still be in scheme...or assembler!
Shouldn't that have come under "spam"? :)
That would be bad too. It's especially worse that MS has a reputation for unethical business practices. If you don't find that reputation to be true...go back to zdnet :)
...why do you people even pay attention to it? I'd say that giving it as much attention as its getting is a win for MS.
I was going to flame you and say that there are enough legitimate reasons to send around exe's in a University envrionment that your suggestion would be intrusive. But, upon further consideration, anybody who was sending an executable for a letitimate reason is probablly l337 enough to zip it anyway :)
They're just bitter at California for stealing their power, so they're putting the squeeze on California's most precious treasure: Spammers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HInternet Startups
It doesn't fix the supposed problem to require opera in addition to IE...wake up!
What's happening on the web now is to be expected when it's unchecked corporate greed that is fueling the development of new web features...
Smart companies know that immediate profit isn't the end-all of strategy. I'm not saying that they have definately made the wrong move, but you shouldn't dismiss the idea that keeping the database running for free is a smart business move. See "reputation" and "respect".
...but do you think it'd be on the web? :)
I don't know anything about seagate's web product, so I can't say. A big selling point of the Parallel crystal stuff is the sweet PDF generation that it does, which seagate can't come close to matching.
The company I interned at last summer, Dynalivery, focuses on web based reporting. Their main product is an enhancement to crystal reports called parallel crystal which makes it into a "web application." Not sure if their product is exactly what you're looking for, and I need to study for finals instead of actually reading your slashdot post fully, but I thought I'd suggest it.
Good luck,
Mike Hunter
I'm told that The University of North Texas and UW have good gaming stuff going on. I'd investigate further and come up with better URL's, but then all hopes of getting this post moded up would fade because it'd be too late, and I am a whore!
I agree with you completely in spirit, but the US court system probablly doesn't.
International law doesn't really exist, so there's no law to break regarding China.
This was driven into my skull by constant repetition by my advisor at University, while I was working on my maths degree. Learn the definitions. Memorise them! That's ninety percent of the work. The remaining ten percent can be split evenly by the acquisition of precise compositional style and by the ability to recognise the application of definitions -- this being the lateral thinking I mentioned above.
:)
If 90% of the work you spent on learning mathematics was memorizing definitions, then I think your undergraduate university wasted a lot of your time.
I am a graduated math major as well; I called myself a "math major" because AFAIAC, it's for life
This is like saying the best way for newbies to understand a C++ program is for them to decompile it and look at the assembly!
There is no way to short-circut the "years of hard work" involved in understanding higher-level mathematics. I know it's the holy grail of CS geeks everywhere to streamline the hard work of understanding proofs, but mathematical decompilation is not the answer.
Being a liberal, I would have a hard time noticing any bias in PBS programming. Do any conservatives read slashdot? If so, is PBS biased in your opinion?
I think most people would agree that unbiased public television is a good thing(TM) for our country, but if a large portion of people in the audience think that PBS and seasame street are really some sort of homosexual mind control (that is not meant to be flaimbait, people really think that) then how can spending lots of tax payer dollars on it be justified?
fool
but instead I'm sure you'll waste your talent replying to this post :(
your mom has been giving that shit out like flyers for over 20 years now! she's the expert!
depends on the translation....how's your aramiac?