The CNN piece had both sides (even reporting of the news???)
The fact that Disney is shopping it around to churches is proveable and shown. The fact that they had a talking head say it's not a religious film is entirely predictable and expected. They are trying to sell as many tickets as possible by whatever means are best and least damaging.
All I know about religious tie ins for this movie are what I saw on TV and what was at the theater Saturday night.
CNN had an artical where (at least they found) some preachers that were explaining the alagory elements of the movie and how they were provided exclusive extended-length previews of the movie.
Disney is trying to drum up buisness ala Passion through the churches.
As far as if it was working, there were 8+ buses at the local AMC Saturday afternoon, all of them from churches.
Funny, despite being an artical described wasteland for looking for something useful.
It has demonstrated itself as a highly scalable, robust and redundency capable system that is completely content neutral.. from 1K messages up to 500meg attachements for videos and the like.
It's required redundency at all levels, from technical to social, but it works.
Just as an admission, I have administered a large scale ISP usenet installation and currently subscribe to a commercial usenet server. Between roadrunner, usenetserver.com and a smaller fills server, I very rarely don't have enough to reconstitute whatever I am downloading. This acts as a great alternative to bittorrent for downloading fansubbed anime. (for people who can't download filesharing apps of any kind (large amounts of port 80 traffic inbound is one thing.. large amounts of inbound and outbound port 80 traffic is another (tunnelled bittorrent).
"the vision is for children to interact while doing homework, and even share homework tips on a local community scale."
Don't they actually mean children sharing homework.. rather than homework tips.
As far as the laptops, good idea, since most processor and hardware is still effectively wasted in terms of what is actually needed to produce x amount of text, display a picture, act like a scientific calculator or display what amounts to a powerpoint deck.
Perhaps these bloggers should consider a change of venue. Say to one of the indymedia sites or the general purpose blog sites like LiveJournal. While LJ would likely comply with a court order, coming from a French (in this case) court would likely be delayed while it was examined etc etc.
Being based outside the country you currently reside in has some usefullness.
Also, it is good to see that, despite living in economically depressed areas of France, they are able to get online at all.
As far as the (US) media coverage of the French riots, I agree, it's been almost all about the damage being done and very little about what they were angry for. I had to ask a friend who is a French national what in the would they were rioting for.
Her response was interesting, mainstream France does not harbor any noticible racism for black Africans. They have been and continue to be integrated into mainstream french society. The flare ups have been towards more recent north african immigrants who happen to be majority arab & muslim decent.
Like elsewhere in the would, people look for scapegoats whereever they can, in this case the more recent immegrants consume french health care and public assistance resources but are not far enough along in integrating (or refusing to integrate) to start contributing taxes and the like to make up for the difference. With unemployment being high in specific parts of France this can lead to problems etc etc.
I can't speak to if there is really any intentional discrimination of anybody. This was all from a 40 YO mother who is more in the world of shopping for dinner at x+3 shops and driving an SUV than anything else.
first PC Hyundai 8088/8 w/ 32meg RLL drive, 640K, 5 1/4" floppy and an epson FX-80 printer (EGA graphics too).. first modem was a 1200 baud Practical Peripherals (before they got swallowed by Hayes).
Funny thing about this kind of growth.. at how little it started out as.
For example, back in 1994/95 when my ISP had either a T1 shared nationally with a university (delphi) or the local guy (tyrell) with a single sparc4 and a 56kb line and a pack of modems.
Funny thing was that at the time, your speed on the net was determined by a single T1. There was a default routed route between MCI and Sprintlink, a single T1, as long as you didn't have to traverse that link you were ok. Life was horrible if you had to across that link
Now of course, my modem has better connectivity than the local ISP and my home broadband has better transfer and latency than either place.
There are still some backwaters of the internet, a few years ago I found a university in Russia that was 9.6kb line out for their students (it was a short piece about the current uses of UUCP)
Oh course we need fat (and getting fatter) pipes nowaddays, hell, the patch downloads for any significant update to Windows is larger than the total distribution size of Windows 95.
Now if I could just get a FTTC here, than it'd be fast enough.
President of Earth Richard Nixon's head "We can't go around spending all of Earth's money everyday you know". Holding up a big novelty check made out to the amount of "ALL".
Seriously, how can they actually throw numbers around that are larger than the GDP of the US over almost a decade.
While I don't doubt that Novell has taken a large risk with playing "the linux card", I don't see them in any immediate danger of financial difficulty.
While their installed base is certainly not what it once was, they have a solid reputation, still significant installed base, and from what I remember, a decent size pile of cash (771,844 at last quarterly report) to fall back on.
In other words, exactly where SCO might have been if they had not made a different sort of bet. (i.e. running a business of making products, selling support and consulting services, etc. Not to start an SCO love fest, but once upon a time they were a well regarded company).
First one was a TRS80 model 100 'laptop'. Had a 12 line / 40 column LCD display and.. with no backlight or moving parts, a battery life of weeks.. I think I remember it running on D cell batteries.
My next laptop (of this story) I got in 1991. It was a Toshiba T1100+. 7.16mhz 8086 processor 640K of memory two 3 1/2 inch floppies 80/24 CGA (mono) LCD screen.
At the time I got my boot profile so heavily optimized that I could load a DOS 3.3, a minimal word processor and a couple of utilities onto about 200k of ramdrive, thus obliviating the need for using the battery hogging floppy drives.
I used this thing for college, I charged it once a week and never did completely drain them down.
Ah those days, thing weighed a good 9 lbs and had the distintion of having a screen that folded over the keyboard, which in and of itself is not noteable. What was notable was the fact that it felt and sounded like a old car door closing.
Only drawback to this tank was weight and the fact that the battery was internal.. so when it finally did succumb to ni-cad memory.. I had to take it completely apart to replace it. Incidentally, the battery was physically larger than the one in my baby UPS that is hooked up to the router and cable modem at home.
All of this was replaced with the exact opposite laptop.. a Compaq Contura Aero.. one of those no-floppy, no cdrom, no color screen 486sx boxes that only weighed 3lbs in 95.
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/nasdaq_listing_req_fee s.pdf
Listing requirements
$10mil in outstanding equity
750,000 outstanding shares
$1.00 minimum share price
400 shareholders
as well as other requirements for filing such as the form they missed.. triggering the reason for this artical
If their stock keeps sliding, they may be delisted for another reason.
If I'm not mistaken (IANAFE - I am not a finance expert), they have to keep their stock above $1.00 and have a total value of $10,000,000 to remain listed (this may be NYSE rules).
I've seen some companies initiate reverse stock-splits to keep their share price above the threshold. Not being listed on NASDAQ isn't the end of the world.. not being listed on say NYSE OTOH.
SCO may not be a very popular company, but I don't think they'll end up listed on the pink sheets any time soon.
You might remember the platform the EFF (and others) used to crack some of the RSA encryption last year. It was dedicated silicon, designed for the purpose. If you wanted to run a GUI on the mass number of processors, I suppose you could.. but that's not what it's designed for.
These CELL processors are more general purpose than this example, and they will (on the PS2) have a way to address a display of some sort.. so a GUI (windows, X, Aqua) isn't out of the question.. but that's hardly the point.
>AAAHHGGHGHHG!!!! Sweet jesus mother fucker! The >ACLU is defending the RIAA.
This is the primary reason the ACLU is above the din when it comes to constitutionally protected liberties (including corporate ones).
This is the organization that sues to allow the KKK to hold rallies, participate in "adopt a highway" programs and other such common sense objectionable.. but still protected.. speech.
Sort of an embodyment of the "vehemently disagree with what you are saying, but fighting to the death for your right to say it".
This purging of objectionable content is censorship -- pure and simple.
This is not to say a person in Kansas can't go buy the material on their own, it's not censorship in the sense of it not being allowed at all (like say Texas in banning sex toys a few years ago).
Kansas AG is a prime example why some types of people should not be in law enforcement, let alone responsible for enforcement of all laws in a state. If a elected official can not seperate their personal beliefs from his official function as a representative of the government, than they should not be in power (A better example is John Ashcroft).
For a little bit of background, in Kansas, with some exceptions, every statewide office by default goes to a Republican unless that canidate goes outside of a loose centrist feel.
Case in point, Dennis Moore, the only democrat from Kansas in the house, ran against Phil Kline, Alan Taft and a few others since being elected. The only way (and this is a subjective observation) he seems to keep beating the republicans is because the local RNC chapter keeps trotting out hard right wingers like Kline to run against him.
Otherwise in Kansas politics, the republican gets it almost every time (the democrats in the kansas house and senate seem to have less power than the democrats in Texas do, at least down there they have the big red button of denying a quorum if absoulutely needed).
Back to the topic / artical.. It would have been more appropriate for these library resources to be presented as is, rather than withheld. If the AG wanted to "make the local library board aware" of some potentially objectionable content would be one thing (though still highly dubious).
Other topic, Kansas politics makes for an interesting read on the way the party not in power has to play ball in the midwest. Like the fact that the democrats didn't even field a canidate during the 2002 Senate race. Or the fact that the (late) prior democrat governor (Kim Finney) had several parts of her platform that were planks in the republican party platform (prolife being primary amoung them).
"How would it work implanted or not to track down a missing child taken by some pedo or such like, don't they have a range of around 1 meter. unless your pedo takes them into walmart or somewhere its quite unlikely that the RF Tag would be triggered."
The artical doesn't have say if it's actually RFID complient devices. It just says Radio Frequency Identification
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The CNN piece had both sides (even reporting of the news???)
The fact that Disney is shopping it around to churches is proveable and shown. The fact that they had a talking head say it's not a religious film is entirely predictable and expected. They are trying to sell as many tickets as possible by whatever means are best and least damaging.
All I know about religious tie ins for this movie are what I saw on TV and what was at the theater Saturday night.
CNN had an artical where (at least they found) some preachers that were explaining the alagory elements of the movie and how they were provided exclusive extended-length previews of the movie.
Disney is trying to drum up buisness ala Passion through the churches.
As far as if it was working, there were 8+ buses at the local AMC Saturday afternoon, all of them from churches.
The CG effects in this Christian allegory masterpiece are so much better than the ones in that other singing / dancing vegetable / fruit one.
Funny, despite being an artical described wasteland for looking for something useful.
.. from 1K messages up to 500meg attachements for videos and the like.
.. large amounts of inbound and outbound port 80 traffic is another (tunnelled bittorrent).
It has demonstrated itself as a highly scalable, robust and redundency capable system that is completely content neutral
It's required redundency at all levels, from technical to social, but it works.
Just as an admission, I have administered a large scale ISP usenet installation and currently subscribe to a commercial usenet server. Between roadrunner, usenetserver.com and a smaller fills server, I very rarely don't have enough to reconstitute whatever I am downloading. This acts as a great alternative to bittorrent for downloading fansubbed anime. (for people who can't download filesharing apps of any kind (large amounts of port 80 traffic inbound is one thing
"the vision is for children to interact while doing homework, and even share homework tips on a local community scale."
.. rather than homework tips.
Don't they actually mean children sharing homework
As far as the laptops, good idea, since most processor and hardware is still effectively wasted in terms of what is actually needed to produce x amount of text, display a picture, act like a scientific calculator or display what amounts to a powerpoint deck.
Perhaps these bloggers should consider a change of venue. Say to one of the indymedia sites or the general purpose blog sites like LiveJournal. While LJ would likely comply with a court order, coming from a French (in this case) court would likely be delayed while it was examined etc etc.
Being based outside the country you currently reside in has some usefullness.
Also, it is good to see that, despite living in economically depressed areas of France, they are able to get online at all.
As far as the (US) media coverage of the French riots, I agree, it's been almost all about the damage being done and very little about what they were angry for. I had to ask a friend who is a French national what in the would they were rioting for.
Her response was interesting, mainstream France does not harbor any noticible racism for black Africans. They have been and continue to be integrated into mainstream french society. The flare ups have been towards more recent north african immigrants who happen to be majority arab & muslim decent.
Like elsewhere in the would, people look for scapegoats whereever they can, in this case the more recent immegrants consume french health care and public assistance resources but are not far enough along in integrating (or refusing to integrate) to start contributing taxes and the like to make up for the difference. With unemployment being high in specific parts of France this can lead to problems etc etc.
I can't speak to if there is really any intentional discrimination of anybody. This was all from a 40 YO mother who is more in the world of shopping for dinner at x+3 shops and driving an SUV than anything else.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html/
NOAA does NOT suggest the detonation of nuclear ordenances to slow or stop hurricanes.
Thing is, the link above is NOT a joke
My "claim to fame" on this was ..
..
.. first modem was a 1200 baud Practical Peripherals (before they got swallowed by Hayes).
started on a TI 99/4A
first PC Hyundai 8088/8 w/ 32meg RLL drive, 640K, 5 1/4" floppy and an epson FX-80 printer (EGA graphics too)
Funny thing about this kind of growth .. at how little it started out as.
For example, back in 1994/95 when my ISP had either a T1 shared nationally with a university (delphi) or the local guy (tyrell) with a single sparc4 and a 56kb line and a pack of modems.
Funny thing was that at the time, your speed on the net was determined by a single T1. There was a default routed route between MCI and Sprintlink, a single T1, as long as you didn't have to traverse that link you were ok. Life was horrible if you had to across that link
Now of course, my modem has better connectivity than the local ISP and my home broadband has better transfer and latency than either place.
There are still some backwaters of the internet, a few years ago I found a university in Russia that was 9.6kb line out for their students (it was a short piece about the current uses of UUCP)
Oh course we need fat (and getting fatter) pipes nowaddays, hell, the patch downloads for any significant update to Windows is larger than the total distribution size of Windows 95.
Now if I could just get a FTTC here, than it'd be fast enough.
what about
President of Earth Richard Nixon's head "We can't go around spending all of Earth's money everyday you know". Holding up a big novelty check made out to the amount of "ALL".
Seriously, how can they actually throw numbers around that are larger than the GDP of the US over almost a decade.
Not to pick a nit, but in the "whole map" view linked to from the main page. It still shows Russia as being the entire former USSR.
.. might want to update that map a little
I'm pretty sure in the *stans, Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya would have something to say about being lumped in with Russia.
Google
The original legislation reminds me of a classic Rocky Horror line.
.. US or EU.
Scene where Janet is singing "There's a Light _over at the Frankenstein place_" - as she is backing up into the tree.
The line goes - to the tune of George of the Jungle theme.
Sonny Sonny
Sonny Sonny Bono
fast as he can be
Sonny Sonny
Sonny Sonny Bono
watch out for that tree
(you might remember he died in a skiing accident)
And yes, extension of copyright in perpetuity doesn't serve anyone's long term interest
While I don't doubt that Novell has taken a large risk with playing "the linux card", I don't see them in any immediate danger of financial difficulty.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=NOVL&annual
While their installed base is certainly not what it once was, they have a solid reputation, still significant installed base, and from what I remember, a decent size pile of cash (771,844 at last quarterly report) to fall back on.
In other words, exactly where SCO might have been if they had not made a different sort of bet. (i.e. running a business of making products, selling support and consulting services, etc. Not to start an SCO love fest, but once upon a time they were a well regarded company).
Here is a magic way to clear disk space on any XT class machine.
do the following
debug
g=c800:5
just select most any option like change the HD interleave or low level format = instant drive space.
I remember by first two laptops battery life.
.. with no backlight or moving parts, a battery life of weeks .. I think I remember it running on D cell batteries.
.. so when it finally did succumb to ni-cad memory .. I had to take it completely apart to replace it. Incidentally, the battery was physically larger than the one in my baby UPS that is hooked up to the router and cable modem at home.
.. a Compaq Contura Aero .. one of those no-floppy, no cdrom, no color screen 486sx boxes that only weighed 3lbs in 95.
First one was a TRS80 model 100 'laptop'. Had a 12 line / 40 column LCD display and
My next laptop (of this story) I got in 1991. It was a Toshiba T1100+.
7.16mhz 8086 processor
640K of memory
two 3 1/2 inch floppies
80/24 CGA (mono) LCD screen.
At the time I got my boot profile so heavily optimized that I could load a DOS 3.3, a minimal word processor and a couple of utilities onto about 200k of ramdrive, thus obliviating the need for using the battery hogging floppy drives.
I used this thing for college, I charged it once a week and never did completely drain them down.
Ah those days, thing weighed a good 9 lbs and had the distintion of having a screen that folded over the keyboard, which in and of itself is not noteable. What was notable was the fact that it felt and sounded like a old car door closing.
Only drawback to this tank was weight and the fact that the battery was internal
All of this was replaced with the exact opposite laptop
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/nasdaq_listing_req_fee s.pdf
Listing requirements
$10mil in outstanding equity
750,000 outstanding shares
$1.00 minimum share price
400 shareholders
as well as other requirements for filing such as the form they missed .. triggering the reason for this artical
If their stock keeps sliding, they may be delisted for another reason.
.. not being listed on say NYSE OTOH.
If I'm not mistaken (IANAFE - I am not a finance expert), they have to keep their stock above $1.00 and have a total value of $10,000,000 to remain listed (this may be NYSE rules).
I've seen some companies initiate reverse stock-splits to keep their share price above the threshold. Not being listed on NASDAQ isn't the end of the world
SCO may not be a very popular company, but I don't think they'll end up listed on the pink sheets any time soon.
Who said anything about it running windows ?
.. but that's not what it's designed for.
.. so a GUI (windows, X, Aqua) isn't out of the question .. but that's hardly the point.
You might remember the platform the EFF (and others) used to crack some of the RSA encryption last year. It was dedicated silicon, designed for the purpose. If you wanted to run a GUI on the mass number of processors, I suppose you could
These CELL processors are more general purpose than this example, and they will (on the PS2) have a way to address a display of some sort
Reason why would Linux be ported to a gaming platform or scientific platform. (Current PS2 runs linux)
.. Imagine playing Cell Games on a cell (based) game.
Why
Because they can.
Depending on Sony's marketing, think of the DBZ tie ins
they were either paraphrasing the line you mentioned, or it's neither .. either way, I don't see how a religious comment got mixed in there
Did anyone else take that last statement as being some sort of reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show that I missed the meaning of?
Magenta sounding a gong
Magenta: "Master, dinner is prepared!"
Frankenfurter: "Excellent. Under the circumstances. Formal dress, is to be optional"
As I demonstrate that I've seen that movie may to many f'king times, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT"
>AAAHHGGHGHHG!!!! Sweet jesus mother fucker! The >ACLU is defending the RIAA.
.. but still protected .. speech.
This is the primary reason the ACLU is above the din when it comes to constitutionally protected liberties (including corporate ones).
This is the organization that sues to allow the KKK to hold rallies, participate in "adopt a highway" programs and other such common sense objectionable
Sort of an embodyment of the "vehemently disagree with what you are saying, but fighting to the death for your right to say it".
>So which party is the current governor of Kansas from?
Democrat
This purging of objectionable content is censorship -- pure and simple.
.. It would have been more appropriate for these library resources to be presented as is, rather than withheld. If the AG wanted to "make the local library board aware" of some potentially objectionable content would be one thing (though still highly dubious).
This is not to say a person in Kansas can't go buy the material on their own, it's not censorship in the sense of it not being allowed at all (like say Texas in banning sex toys a few years ago).
Kansas AG is a prime example why some types of people should not be in law enforcement, let alone responsible for enforcement of all laws in a state. If a elected official can not seperate their personal beliefs from his official function as a representative of the government, than they should not be in power (A better example is John Ashcroft).
For a little bit of background, in Kansas, with some exceptions, every statewide office by default goes to a Republican unless that canidate goes outside of a loose centrist feel.
Case in point, Dennis Moore, the only democrat from Kansas in the house, ran against Phil Kline, Alan Taft and a few others since being elected. The only way (and this is a subjective observation) he seems to keep beating the republicans is because the local RNC chapter keeps trotting out hard right wingers like Kline to run against him.
Otherwise in Kansas politics, the republican gets it almost every time (the democrats in the kansas house and senate seem to have less power than the democrats in Texas do, at least down there they have the big red button of denying a quorum if absoulutely needed).
Back to the topic / artical
Other topic, Kansas politics makes for an interesting read on the way the party not in power has to play ball in the midwest. Like the fact that the democrats didn't even field a canidate during the 2002 Senate race. Or the fact that the (late) prior democrat governor (Kim Finney) had several parts of her platform that were planks in the republican party platform (prolife being primary amoung them).
"How would it work implanted or not to track down a missing child taken by some pedo or such like, don't they have a range of around 1 meter. unless your pedo takes them into walmart or somewhere its quite unlikely that the RF Tag would be triggered."
The artical doesn't have say if it's actually RFID complient devices. It just says Radio Frequency Identification