IBM wants all companies to use DB2, even if that company would be better off with MySql. For IBM, anyone who needs a database, for no matter what purpose, should just pluck the cash and get DB2. No matter that 20% of those people could just as well use MySql. That would mean a 20% reduction in sales.
The DMCA is criminalizing the White-ish hat, meaning that if you are not 100% pure cotton white hat then you must be, by law, a rotten, credit-card thieving, hard-drive reformatting, website-defacing, hardcore-porn-trading, no-good, evil, and overall bad person.
Of course, it's equivalent to saying that people that drive over the speed limit are killers.
Just because you bend a little stupid and useless law does not make you a hard-core, purse-snatching, nigerian-money-laundering uberhaxor whose handle rhymes with Phuckiaul.
I say: Hacking is good: It's called creativity, perseverence, and curiosity. Take these things away from society and people become sullen, unimaginative, short-attention-spanned. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what the entertainment industry wants people to be like.
{voice of irate teacher in pink floyd's The Wall] "You will sit on the couch and watch our programming! Any demonstration of self-awareness will be punished! How can you become a couch potato if you don't eat your meat?" Da-dum-dum da-dummmm.
You know the old saying: If you can't beat them, join them?
Well, any corporation can be beat if they screw up. Sun's stock hovers around 3 and Oracle is scraping by at 9. MSFT would have gone down with them had they not been aggressively buying their own shares to prop up the price. ( I fear they too will tank in time--yay)
Rather, open source developers can't be beat. You can't sue them, fire them, or force them one way or another. If one gets disgruntled about life and everything, five more rise to the occasion (with appropriate amount of bickering--but no ones dies of bickering... ni! ni! ni! ).
This, I think, is a perfect case of: Since they (the Corps) can't beat us (the OS Devs) they're joining us.
I just hope we don't jump on the bandwagon wholesale. Their evil ways are insidious, promising riches and glory,capitalism style, but lead straight down the Road to Perdition to the Bankruptcy Court.
Harken thee: inspect the mouth of the gift horse. (translation: watch your back OSS)
You know, true randomness does not happen, in theory. If we had perfect knowledge of all subatomic particles since the universe began then we would be able to predict anything. So, in theory, everything, including randomness, can be fully determined. Yet the likelihood of this happening in our lifetime is slim to none.
Likewise, can you tell, at any one time, how many hits the word "baka" is going to return on the internet in a google search? (by the way, about 363,000 as of 9/19/2002) What are the chances that someone, anyone, could replicate the same results exactly in 3 months time? Slim to none. I don't think anyone, ever, could pull that off, not even google. So while, yes, in theory it is possible, the odds are slim to none.
Pick a search engine at random, use a random word from a random page on the net, search on that word in your random search engine, and use the number of hits as your random number. Since pages are constantly coming on and dropping off the net, and since you're using a different word each time, I doubt you could get anything predictable. You could of course search foreign language words, so the number of words to search from would be very great.
Oh, and that brings me to yet another point. Can the teenage tagger get all creative in the game and "refactor" the Happy Meal with red spray paint like in RL?
I wonder... If the ad is not successful, will it be pulled? I can already see the CNN headline: "McDonalds pulled their ad from the Sim's world..." Guess the avatars were not hungry enough.
In this case I want a '88 caddy and a.45, to do drive by shooting, just like in real life. Are there going to be cops and prisons and judges and laywers and politicians too? And I want my character to be able to run a crackhouse with 17 year old chicks being digitized for the net with a Sony digital camcorder.
Please, it's just a game. Games are a means to escape reality, not sink deeper into it...
speaking of dead wrong, there's a lot of design that goes into making an aricraft airworthy on paper before it's built. It's pretty harsh when the test pilot plummets to the ground in a bad aircraft at 400 mph and dies most instantly. The QA was done before the pilot got on board, meaning the design must have been pretty good. I didn't say there would be no QA, just very little (how many pilots do you have on hand?)
What you'd really want is all the computers in all the universes working an infinite amount of time... But if you had that much computing power. I'd say use it to design a really bitching weapon system and invade their ass/kill them with a vengence and don't worry about decrypting their feeble call for help. (All our base are belong to them)
My wife likes the Sting song at the end of Kate and Leopold. She asked me to download the song.
I said honey, I've got a problem with that.
I said that I didn't want to buy the CD because the label is a RIAA member and I disagree with their legal tactics that are borderline inhuman.
I also said that I didn't want to download his music for free because I highly respect Sting as an artist and performer and I wouldn't want to steal his stuff. (I don't download Spears music either, but that's not because I respect her artistry).
So I said that technically I couldn't, in fact, get his music without compromising my principles.
To which she said that she didn't expect me to compromise my principle just to get a song.
I did say that if there was a way I could send him $5, I would not feel bad downloading the song anymore, but that I knew of no way to reliably do that. (by reliably, I mean, making sure that he gets the whole 5, not 9.3% of it)
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Would a windshield coated with the stuff not need wipers?
on an aside, it would look just like real sand if it wasn't so darn blue.
Since property is a legally defined term, and that countries around the world claim (and rightly so) the right to enact laws that define what property is, I would assume that the MS DRM server will have a "Chinese" option that will allow it to comply with the laws of China.
Now, laws concerning intellectual property in China are rather unpalatable to western standards.
So MS is either planning to implement a server which helps enforce "immoral" and "against humanity" laws (again, in the western view), or it will be in direct violation of the Right to Self Govern of a Sovereign nation. One, I might add, which sports permanent membership in the United Nation Security Council, a nuclear arsenal, a two million-plus man army, membership in the World Trade Organization, and Preferred Trading Partner status with the United States.
Either way, they're going to have huge cojones to make it our of this one without seriously pissing off a large number of people.
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Heck, in the 70's the days of the computer users were numbered.
I meant to say plunck, but pluck is weirdly inappropratively funny.
Awww, you don't undersand marketing.
IBM wants all companies to use DB2, even if that company would be better off with MySql. For IBM, anyone who needs a database, for no matter what purpose, should just pluck the cash and get DB2. No matter that 20% of those people could just as well use MySql. That would mean a 20% reduction in sales.
You're right.
The DMCA is criminalizing the White-ish hat, meaning that if you are not 100% pure cotton white hat then you must be, by law, a rotten, credit-card thieving, hard-drive reformatting, website-defacing, hardcore-porn-trading, no-good, evil, and overall bad person.
Of course, it's equivalent to saying that people that drive over the speed limit are killers.
Just because you bend a little stupid and useless law does not make you a hard-core, purse-snatching, nigerian-money-laundering uberhaxor whose handle rhymes with Phuckiaul.
I say: Hacking is good: It's called creativity, perseverence, and curiosity. Take these things away from society and people become sullen, unimaginative, short-attention-spanned. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what the entertainment industry wants people to be like.
{voice of irate teacher in pink floyd's The Wall]
"You will sit on the couch and watch our programming! Any demonstration of self-awareness will be punished! How can you become a couch potato if you don't eat your meat?" Da-dum-dum da-dummmm.
"Oh gee" being of course the geek slang for zero gravity, thus "oh gees" being zero gravities... Right?
I did the spelling on purpose. I almost wrote vain instead of vane
As in Pencil-Vain-Ya
hehe
You know the old saying: If you can't beat them, join them?
Well, any corporation can be beat if they screw up. Sun's stock hovers around 3 and Oracle is scraping by at 9. MSFT would have gone down with them had they not been aggressively buying their own shares to prop up the price. ( I fear they too will tank in time--yay)
Rather, open source developers can't be beat. You can't sue them, fire them, or force them one way or another. If one gets disgruntled about life and everything, five more rise to the occasion (with appropriate amount of bickering--but no ones dies of bickering... ni! ni! ni! ).
This, I think, is a perfect case of: Since they (the Corps) can't beat us (the OS Devs) they're joining us.
I just hope we don't jump on the bandwagon wholesale. Their evil ways are insidious, promising riches and glory,capitalism style, but lead straight down the Road to Perdition to the Bankruptcy Court.
Harken thee: inspect the mouth of the gift horse. (translation: watch your back OSS)
That's it. This is the last straw. Now I am definitely not moving to Pencil-vane-ya.
why, from SETI research signal, of course.
You know, true randomness does not happen, in theory. If we had perfect knowledge of all subatomic particles since the universe began then we would be able to predict anything. So, in theory, everything, including randomness, can be fully determined. Yet the likelihood of this happening in our lifetime is slim to none.
Likewise, can you tell, at any one time, how many hits the word "baka" is going to return on the internet in a google search? (by the way, about 363,000 as of 9/19/2002)
What are the chances that someone, anyone, could replicate the same results exactly in 3 months time? Slim to none.
I don't think anyone, ever, could pull that off, not even google.
So while, yes, in theory it is possible, the odds are slim to none.
Once you learn to spell correctly, it is easy to do it all the time.
But the thing is to define the "correct".
For example, the letter "I". Why do we use a capital "I" to represent self? It's just a convention is it not?
likewise thee and you
likewise you and u
likewise to an 2 and two and 2 and &
I say the symbolic representation of a spoken language (which is what English really is) should be whatever the readers find most expedient.
And if that means doing the l33t thang, then fine.
True randomness:
Pick a search engine at random, use a random word from a random page on the net, search on that word in your random search engine, and use the number of hits as your random number. Since pages are constantly coming on and dropping off the net, and since you're using a different word each time, I doubt you could get anything predictable. You could of course search foreign language words, so the number of words to search from would be very great.
Oh, and no hardware required.
Actually it's more like people who have enough money to buy and use a wireless device that's not a cheap Kyocera phone.
Mee too thank thee
I want a spellchecker to tell me not how to spell, but how much mana I need to cast yet one more magic missile. (Roll the 1d4)
Oh, and that brings me to yet another point. Can the teenage tagger get all creative in the game and "refactor" the Happy Meal with red spray paint like in RL?
I wonder... If the ad is not successful, will it be pulled? I can already see the CNN headline: "McDonalds pulled their ad from the Sim's world..." Guess the avatars were not hungry enough.
In this case I want a '88 caddy and a .45, to do drive by shooting, just like in real life. Are there going to be cops and prisons and judges and laywers and politicians too? And I want my character to be able to run a crackhouse with 17 year old chicks being digitized for the net with a Sony digital camcorder.
Please, it's just a game. Games are a means to escape reality, not sink deeper into it...
speaking of dead wrong, there's a lot of design that goes into making an aricraft airworthy on paper before it's built. It's pretty harsh when the test pilot plummets to the ground in a bad aircraft at 400 mph and dies most instantly. The QA was done before the pilot got on board, meaning the design must have been pretty good. I didn't say there would be no QA, just very little (how many pilots do you have on hand?)
Actually, Billy does not have the FBI, CIA, and the black helicopters to shut you up...
On the other hand, he wants control of all information on the world's computers...
You may be right after all...
you aren't married, obviously. My wife's welfare is more important than my principles.
The resulting tapioca would of course not be fat-free, but at least it would be light.
Ahem...
I'll go drink more coffee before I hurt myself.
What you'd really want is all the computers in all the universes working an infinite amount of time... But if you had that much computing power. I'd say use it to design a really bitching weapon system and invade their ass/kill them with a vengence and don't worry about decrypting their feeble call for help. (All our base are belong to them)
Exactly.
My wife likes the Sting song at the end of Kate and Leopold. She asked me to download the song.
I said honey, I've got a problem with that.
I said that I didn't want to buy the CD because the label is a RIAA member and I disagree with their legal tactics that are borderline inhuman.
I also said that I didn't want to download his music for free because I highly respect Sting as an artist and performer and I wouldn't want to steal his stuff. (I don't download Spears music either, but that's not because I respect her artistry).
So I said that technically I couldn't, in fact, get his music without compromising my principles.
To which she said that she didn't expect me to compromise my principle just to get a song.
I did say that if there was a way I could send him $5, I would not feel bad downloading the song anymore, but that I knew of no way to reliably do that. (by reliably, I mean, making sure that he gets the whole 5, not 9.3% of it)
Would a windshield coated with the stuff not need wipers?
on an aside, it would look just like real sand if it wasn't so darn blue.
Since property is a legally defined term, and that countries around the world claim (and rightly so) the right to enact laws that define what property is, I would assume that the MS DRM server will have a "Chinese" option that will allow it to comply with the laws of China.
Now, laws concerning intellectual property in China are rather unpalatable to western standards.
So MS is either planning to implement a server which helps enforce "immoral" and "against humanity" laws (again, in the western view), or it will be in direct violation of the Right to Self Govern of a Sovereign nation. One, I might add, which sports permanent membership in the United Nation Security Council, a nuclear arsenal, a two million-plus man army, membership in the World Trade Organization, and Preferred Trading Partner status with the United States.
Either way, they're going to have huge cojones to make it our of this one without seriously pissing off a large number of people.