I liked Cringely's suggestion that Hewpaq put all their inventory of desktop PCs on Ebay starting at $1 with no reserve (apparently this gives statistically higher final sale prices).
Of course, $1 is kind of pricey for a Compaq. What do boat anchors retail for?
Even in the traditional moderatorial state of crack-addledness, one should be able to determine that this is on-topic. Half the words in the post are directly lifted from the article, the other half form a connected argument from that statement.
-1: Troll?
Certainly.
-1: Flamebait?
Possibly.
+1: Funny?
Plausibly.
-1: Offtopic?
You are a crack-head moderator and I claim my five pounds.
Actually, he wants us to become like artists before copyright was invented. That is, we would need to:
be independently wealthy; or
depend on patronage; or
do something else during the day.
Right now I depend on the patronage of the corporation which employs me to develop software for their own internal use. Nowhere does the FSF claim that in house software should be free.
I dream longingly of my days in a 10'x10' cubicle.
Hell, I even look back fondly on the 8'x8' cubicle I had in the building after that.
No, I am stuck in an 8'x6' cubicle that requires me to sit down in my chair and then rotate it to get at my workstation, as there is insufficient room to pull the chair back. At least they replaced the burning task lights of death that they originally came with. And last year they made us pack up all our stuff in boxes so they could replace the padding in the walls with a less combustible version.
John has a Grinch-based poem somewhere about our cubes being two sizes too small.
Agreed. Today Microsoft released a cumulative fix for IIS 4 and IIS 5. They fix five previously unknown bugs, as well as some known ones, including the Code Red hole. Anyone want to bet that programmers at Microsoft are the *only* people who knew about these holes? Perhaps they were tipped off by some White Hat hacker, but more likely they discovered the hole from an intrusion attempt.
Actually, burn-in-store gives you the opportunity to uniquely tag the CD, and tie it to the person who bought it. When it shows up on KaZaA or wherever, you know exactly who put it there.
Unfortunately for the rational defenders of the 2nd Amendment, their voices are drowned by the "cold dead hands" brigade. I wonder if Charlton Heston would be interested in leading an organization who believed that removing our right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre is the first step to martial law?
Also, never lose sight of the fact that guns *only* kill things. I find it hard to think of a less single-purpose device.
You don't mean this. You mean < $400/month cannot buy you any more speed than $40/month. Once you start to look at k$/month, you get a lot more options.
We also briefly considered starting with a public BSD-based IPv6 implementation and porting it to Windows NT. We feel that porting a BSD-based protocol, perhaps with TDI and NDIS glue layers, would be considerable work (the differences between BSD and Windows NT internals being much greater than the differences between IPv4 and IPv6) and probably result in an unsightly implementation. Because we would like our implementation to serve as a relatively clean example for others, we did not pursue this approach.
Note the lack of discussion of licence issues. Clearly using BSD code is accepted practice at Microsoft.
Personally, I think the original point is made even if they only lifted the BSD ftp client.
No, trademark law was created to stop deliberate fraud. I can not, and should not be able to, sell a graphics library called OpenGL. That should be the limit of SGIs rights in this matter.
The "confusingly similar" nonsense is a recent addition to trademark law designed to legalize harassment and squash dissent. Go look at www.openil.org. Then look at www.opengl.org. Confused? You shouldn't be. Nor should 3 bits different in the name confuse you, any more than opening a pizza restaurant next door to a McDonalds is "confusingly similar" because the addresses are only one digit different.
Of course, this presupposes you are not an unelected, braindead, WIPO judge.
is it really illegal to own gold bullion in the U.S.?
I don't know. I first heard this when I was a kind in England. I think Carter was president at the time. Pretty soon after that I read something similar in Heinlein. It didn't make sense ("you can have as many guns as you want but not one gold brick?") so I stopped worrying about it.
It seems to me that all the e-Gold is in London or Dubai, so it wouldn't seem that they can get this guy on that count.
The cables would have to be awfully thick (hence heavy) to transmit a decent amount of power 3 miles. Then you're wasting power just keeping them up in the sky.
I imagine Australians don't worry too much about stuff falling out of the sky - Skylab & Mir both missed - but I think other, more populated, countries would have a hard time implementing this. Regardless, you have yet more transmission costs once you get to the ground (although obviously this is a problem with well known solutions).
The jet stream is stable because it is uninterrupted. One wind farm isn't going to change that. Put enough of them up there, though, and you're going to change weather patterns.
It's a nice idea, but I don't see it being terribly practical.
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OK, I don't usually rant about moderation, but this has got me confused.
Why is this Informative, but this is Offtopic? Is it the lack of a link to microsoft.com? Would that make it on-topic?
My phone number is in the book. It should be relatively easy to find out where I live.
The problem is with the harassers and the terrorists, not with the people who provide them with information. I don't see a difference between telling someone how to make a bomb and telling someone the home address of your mutual enemies.
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The system developed by the team at MIT is called Cheese, since they are following the mouse, like a mouse follows cheese.
Wouldn't a better title have been "Cat"? Or perhaps "Rodent Stalker"?
I liked Cringely's suggestion that Hewpaq put all their inventory of desktop PCs on Ebay starting at $1 with no reserve (apparently this gives statistically higher final sale prices).
Of course, $1 is kind of pricey for a Compaq. What do boat anchors retail for?
Even in the traditional moderatorial state of crack-addledness, one should be able to determine that this is on-topic. Half the words in the post are directly lifted from the article, the other half form a connected argument from that statement.
-1: Troll?
Certainly.
-1: Flamebait?
Possibly.
+1: Funny?
Plausibly.
-1: Offtopic?
You are a crack-head moderator and I claim my five pounds.
Right now I depend on the patronage of the corporation which employs me to develop software for their own internal use. Nowhere does the FSF claim that in house software should be free.
You are Robert Novak and I claim my five pounds.
I dream longingly of my days in a 10'x10' cubicle.
Hell, I even look back fondly on the 8'x8' cubicle I had in the building after that.
No, I am stuck in an 8'x6' cubicle that requires me to sit down in my chair and then rotate it to get at my workstation, as there is insufficient room to pull the chair back. At least they replaced the burning task lights of death that they originally came with. And last year they made us pack up all our stuff in boxes so they could replace the padding in the walls with a less combustible version.
John has a Grinch-based poem somewhere about our cubes being two sizes too small.
Agreed. Today Microsoft released a cumulative fix for IIS 4 and IIS 5. They fix five previously unknown bugs, as well as some known ones, including the Code Red hole. Anyone want to bet that programmers at Microsoft are the *only* people who knew about these holes? Perhaps they were tipped off by some White Hat hacker, but more likely they discovered the hole from an intrusion attempt.
Only cases on the fringe would ever get to court. Everything else can be either granted or rejected based on obviousness or precedent.
Perhaps a constitutional amendment along the lines of "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of the press" would be in order?
Actually, burn-in-store gives you the opportunity to uniquely tag the CD, and tie it to the person who bought it. When it shows up on KaZaA or wherever, you know exactly who put it there.
Unfortunately for the rational defenders of the 2nd Amendment, their voices are drowned by the "cold dead hands" brigade. I wonder if Charlton Heston would be interested in leading an organization who believed that removing our right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre is the first step to martial law?
Also, never lose sight of the fact that guns *only* kill things. I find it hard to think of a less single-purpose device.
Plase click my homepage and vote for my wife (Angie) in this month's Sexiest Geek Alive contest!
1) s/Plase/Please/
2) Angie is quite sexy, but is not the sexiest person on that page
3) You link from a story about Spam to a site that harvests email addresses? Truly brilliant!
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You don't mean this. You mean < $400/month cannot buy you any more speed than $40/month. Once you start to look at k$/month, you get a lot more options.
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Or is HP keeping him too busy these days?
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http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/usenixnt/pap er.htm includes this gem:
We also briefly considered starting with a public BSD-based IPv6 implementation and porting it to Windows NT. We feel that porting a BSD-based protocol, perhaps with TDI and NDIS glue layers, would be considerable work (the differences between BSD and Windows NT internals being much greater than the differences between IPv4 and IPv6) and probably result in an unsightly implementation. Because we would like our implementation to serve as a relatively clean example for others, we did not pursue this approach.
Note the lack of discussion of licence issues. Clearly using BSD code is accepted practice at Microsoft.
Personally, I think the original point is made even if they only lifted the BSD ftp client.
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And you'll get truncated by the 120 char sig limit?
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I believe whitespace overloading was Bjarne's april fool joke of a few years ago.
OTOH, why not? Python does it [ducks]
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No, trademark law was created to stop deliberate fraud. I can not, and should not be able to, sell a graphics library called OpenGL. That should be the limit of SGIs rights in this matter.
The "confusingly similar" nonsense is a recent addition to trademark law designed to legalize harassment and squash dissent. Go look at www.openil.org. Then look at www.opengl.org. Confused? You shouldn't be. Nor should 3 bits different in the name confuse you, any more than opening a pizza restaurant next door to a McDonalds is "confusingly similar" because the addresses are only one digit different.
Of course, this presupposes you are not an unelected, braindead, WIPO judge.
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is it really illegal to own gold bullion in the U.S.?
I don't know. I first heard this when I was a kind in England. I think Carter was president at the time. Pretty soon after that I read something similar in Heinlein. It didn't make sense ("you can have as many guns as you want but not one gold brick?") so I stopped worrying about it.
It seems to me that all the e-Gold is in London or Dubai, so it wouldn't seem that they can get this guy on that count.
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And he was back by 7:50pm. Either dinner was really short, or something else was.
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The cables would have to be awfully thick (hence heavy) to transmit a decent amount of power 3 miles. Then you're wasting power just keeping them up in the sky.
I imagine Australians don't worry too much about stuff falling out of the sky - Skylab & Mir both missed - but I think other, more populated, countries would have a hard time implementing this. Regardless, you have yet more transmission costs once you get to the ground (although obviously this is a problem with well known solutions).
The jet stream is stable because it is uninterrupted. One wind farm isn't going to change that. Put enough of them up there, though, and you're going to change weather patterns.
It's a nice idea, but I don't see it being terribly practical.
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OK, I don't usually rant about moderation, but this has got me confused.
Why is this Informative, but this is Offtopic? Is it the lack of a link to microsoft.com? Would that make it on-topic?
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I am!
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My phone number is in the book. It should be relatively easy to find out where I live.
The problem is with the harassers and the terrorists, not with the people who provide them with information. I don't see a difference between telling someone how to make a bomb and telling someone the home address of your mutual enemies.
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AOL owes me, and will continue to owe me, until the September that never ended ends.
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