Not that I necessarily disagree with any of your other points, but when you say:
Fact: Since ~1950 the Federal Reserve note has not been backed by ANY hard currency; it is worthless fiat paper.
I get all worried about the fact that there are apparently intelligent people who think that gold has some intrinsic value, or that the amount of gold I have in my vault determines in some way how wealthy I am. Value is entirely determined by humans, and varies according to circumstances (mostly supply and demand).
Backing up, you also say:
Fact: Gold has about the same approximate buying power today as it did 100 years ago. US currency has approximately 1/100th the buying power today as it did 100 years ago.
Buying what? Automobiles, computers, real estate, bread? None of these things cost the same amount as they did a hundred years ago.
No, the MPAA vs. 2600 case is all about DMCA and the clauses relating to circumvention devices. No trade secrets were involved. You are probably thinking of the several DVDCCA vs. Doe cases.
I need to learn more about the precise circumstance in which links to Web sites that contain uncompiled code have been taken down pursuant to requests from the copyright owners. Unfortunately, I do not have sufficient information to answer this question of the present time.
Could the interview organizer please send Rep. Boucher some links to the MPAA vs. 2600 case? Given the high level of clue he displayed in his other answers, I would like to hear his informed opinion on this one.
How do you propose I manage the information that comes to me, then? I can't read all of it. I could ignore the internet entirely, as half of Americans and most of the world do, and get all my information through people I meet IRL and from the "corporatized" TV & radio networks. Or I can filter it in some way.
Filtering can be done automatically based on rules, like spam filters; it can be centrally mandated; or I can choose a group of people who I trust (in aggregate) to make the same kinds of decisions I would make. I choose the last.
I hear plenty of opinions here on slashdot that I disagree with. Gun control, parenting, Microsoft: all are divisive issues with informative and insightful people on both sides.
Jon, if collaborative filtering really meant you only saw positions you agreed with, how did you ever find out that people were pissed at you stealing their Hellmouth posts?
Wrong. Now I can code on my notebook like I can with a desktop - with the keyboard & monitor both at comfortable distances, rather than one or the other too close or two far away.
It looks too big to be a practical tablet, though.
Suppose I have a picture. It depicts the president of the city bus company in a humourous pose with Saddam Hussein. I rent a storefront downtown and put it on display, with free admission.
The bus guy doesn't like this, understandably, and so he calls his friend the chief of police, and gets a bunch of uniforms out at the bus stop. Everyone who gets off the bus is asked where they're going, and if you say "to see the picture" you get put back on the bus.
The first one appears not to apply. The general claims are very broad, and would cover pretty much every portable device, as has been said elsewhere in this topic. The description, however, clearly describes a credit-card-sized device that plugs into the handheld for the purposes of user authentication, i.e. the handheld is not carried around with you like a palmtop, it is more like the PINpads at a checkout, only IR-connected rather than whatever goofy serial port they're using this week.
Scalability & stability. If you don't care about those, use one of the free offerings.
We will know databases are a commodity technology when the free offerings are as good or better than the commercial offerings. Right now that isn't the case.
Anyone, given budget and time, can throw enough hardware at a problem (making a dinosaur walk, beating the world chess champion) to hide the fact that they haven't solved the problem. That was my point.
Funny, but also sad. I'm sure this is a fine piece of engineering, but 5.1GB of RAM? Is it running Whistler^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows XP in every shoulder?
With the 4x700MHz PIIIs, that's significantly more processing power than your average dinosaur brain, and they walked a lot better than this beast.
Time to give up on this problem, chaps. AI researchers used to work on chess, because they thought they could never brute force the problem. Now they've done the same to walking. Time to move on to face recognition, or something else.
My colleagues had cable modems long before they were available in my area. I would listen to tales of fantastic download speeds, and be faintly jealous, but really, it didn't sound that much better than 56k.
Then I stayed at a Marriot in Dayton, Ohio. There was a cable modem in the room (which needed to be rebooted, which needed 3rd level support, plus moving the fscking huge television cabinet, but I digress). $9.95 a day. It fits neatly under "Phone Calls" on the expense voucher. So I gave it a try.
I was an instant convert. I got a cable modem on the first day they were doing installations in my neighbourhood.
and I hope he throws someone in jail for 6 years for the heinous crime of forwarding an email. Then maybe we'll get stupid laws like this one thrown out.
Come on. No substantial copyright exists in any work of less than 200 words, because that's the limit for an excerpt under fair use.
A colleague forwarded to me yesterday an email from his wife in which she derided overclockers in general and her husband in particular. Now not only is he in trouble for shagging their PC, he's violated her copyright, too.
Except this girl clearly was prepared to deal with this question, as her (apparently) well-presented project shows.
While I agree with you in principle, this is the wrong case for you to argue this point on. This is a simple matter of the school authorities being embarrassed by a child questioning their assumptions, and dealing with it in a stupid manner. Business as usual in our public schools.
It's perhaps less obvious in the Ask Slashdot colour scheme, but the Slashdot style is to put the submitter's comments in italics, and the editor's comments in the regular font. It is Cliff who doesn't trust closed source software, not TomCampion (although he probably doesn't).
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Not that I necessarily disagree with any of your other points, but when you say:
Fact: Since ~1950 the Federal Reserve note has not been backed by ANY hard currency; it is worthless fiat paper.
I get all worried about the fact that there are apparently intelligent people who think that gold has some intrinsic value, or that the amount of gold I have in my vault determines in some way how wealthy I am. Value is entirely determined by humans, and varies according to circumstances (mostly supply and demand).
Backing up, you also say:
Fact: Gold has about the same approximate buying power today as it did 100 years ago. US currency has approximately 1/100th the buying power today as it did 100 years ago.
Buying what? Automobiles, computers, real estate, bread? None of these things cost the same amount as they did a hundred years ago.
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No. They send you an email saying your gold is now in their vault in Dubai. Or London.
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It's scary that people will pay money to cheat at a game.
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I believe that this quote:
not to play Quake
Taken in conjunction with this comment entitles you to some elective surgery.
You've still got one, though.
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NT at one time shipped in 4 flavours: x86, PPC, MIPS and Alpha. Only x86 continues to be developed.
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Did you miss the bit where the site owners were informed five and a half days ago and have chosen not to fix it? That MSNBC reported this 2 days ago?
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No, the MPAA vs. 2600 case is all about DMCA and the clauses relating to circumvention devices. No trade secrets were involved. You are probably thinking of the several DVDCCA vs. Doe cases.
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I need to learn more about the precise circumstance in which links to Web sites that contain uncompiled code have been taken down pursuant to requests from the copyright owners. Unfortunately, I do not have sufficient information to answer this question of the present time.
Could the interview organizer please send Rep. Boucher some links to the MPAA vs. 2600 case? Given the high level of clue he displayed in his other answers, I would like to hear his informed opinion on this one.
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an ebay.co.jp?
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How do you propose I manage the information that comes to me, then? I can't read all of it. I could ignore the internet entirely, as half of Americans and most of the world do, and get all my information through people I meet IRL and from the "corporatized" TV & radio networks. Or I can filter it in some way.
Filtering can be done automatically based on rules, like spam filters; it can be centrally mandated; or I can choose a group of people who I trust (in aggregate) to make the same kinds of decisions I would make. I choose the last.
I hear plenty of opinions here on slashdot that I disagree with. Gun control, parenting, Microsoft: all are divisive issues with informative and insightful people on both sides.
Jon, if collaborative filtering really meant you only saw positions you agreed with, how did you ever find out that people were pissed at you stealing their Hellmouth posts?
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Wrong. Now I can code on my notebook like I can with a desktop - with the keyboard & monitor both at comfortable distances, rather than one or the other too close or two far away.
It looks too big to be a practical tablet, though.
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Is this news?
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Suppose I have a picture. It depicts the president of the city bus company in a humourous pose with Saddam Hussein. I rent a storefront downtown and put it on display, with free admission.
The bus guy doesn't like this, understandably, and so he calls his friend the chief of police, and gets a bunch of uniforms out at the bus stop. Everyone who gets off the bus is asked where they're going, and if you say "to see the picture" you get put back on the bus.
So, no, no-one's stopping me from speaking.
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If Taco claimed that the Gates of Borg icon was an actual screenshot, I think there'd be some uproar.
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The first one appears not to apply. The general claims are very broad, and would cover pretty much every portable device, as has been said elsewhere in this topic. The description, however, clearly describes a credit-card-sized device that plugs into the handheld for the purposes of user authentication, i.e. the handheld is not carried around with you like a palmtop, it is more like the PINpads at a checkout, only IR-connected rather than whatever goofy serial port they're using this week.
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And every e-tailer relocates to SD, NH or some other 0% sales tax state.
Not that this is necessarily good or bad, just a prediction.
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Yeah, if the President of the company doesn't know that HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer, how good can it be?
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Scalability & stability. If you don't care about those, use one of the free offerings.
We will know databases are a commodity technology when the free offerings are as good or better than the commercial offerings. Right now that isn't the case.
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We have one of these that my wife liberated from an unworthy employer. It is vastly superior to the Fellowes that we had before.
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Anyone, given budget and time, can throw enough hardware at a problem (making a dinosaur walk, beating the world chess champion) to hide the fact that they haven't solved the problem. That was my point.
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Funny, but also sad. I'm sure this is a fine piece of engineering, but 5.1GB of RAM? Is it running Whistler^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows XP in every shoulder?
With the 4x700MHz PIIIs, that's significantly more processing power than your average dinosaur brain, and they walked a lot better than this beast.
Time to give up on this problem, chaps. AI researchers used to work on chess, because they thought they could never brute force the problem. Now they've done the same to walking. Time to move on to face recognition, or something else.
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My colleagues had cable modems long before they were available in my area. I would listen to tales of fantastic download speeds, and be faintly jealous, but really, it didn't sound that much better than 56k.
Then I stayed at a Marriot in Dayton, Ohio. There was a cable modem in the room (which needed to be rebooted, which needed 3rd level support, plus moving the fscking huge television cabinet, but I digress). $9.95 a day. It fits neatly under "Phone Calls" on the expense voucher. So I gave it a try.
I was an instant convert. I got a cable modem on the first day they were doing installations in my neighbourhood.
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and I hope he throws someone in jail for 6 years for the heinous crime of forwarding an email. Then maybe we'll get stupid laws like this one thrown out.
Come on. No substantial copyright exists in any work of less than 200 words, because that's the limit for an excerpt under fair use.
A colleague forwarded to me yesterday an email from his wife in which she derided overclockers in general and her husband in particular. Now not only is he in trouble for shagging their PC, he's violated her copyright, too.
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Except this girl clearly was prepared to deal with this question, as her (apparently) well-presented project shows.
While I agree with you in principle, this is the wrong case for you to argue this point on. This is a simple matter of the school authorities being embarrassed by a child questioning their assumptions, and dealing with it in a stupid manner. Business as usual in our public schools.
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It's perhaps less obvious in the Ask Slashdot colour scheme, but the Slashdot style is to put the submitter's comments in italics, and the editor's comments in the regular font. It is Cliff who doesn't trust closed source software, not TomCampion (although he probably doesn't).
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