My domain - pcresource.net - has nothing there right now. My domain is also similar to the domains of a few other people/companies.
While I have never been threatend with legal action by the American companies concerned I have been offered large sums of money to compensate me if I agree to hand over the domain.
So far I have refused. The law is on my side. I bought it. I own it. It's mine.
I would write back to the university (cc your ISP) and state the information that you know about the trademarks owned and also let them know about the services you offer (for free!) to their students. It would also help to get the students on your side. No university wants an uprising within it's students!
In short, don't give in. The law is on your side. Don't let them take you without a fight!
I personally prefer car reg numbers as they are hard to quess (random letters and numbers) but they mean something to me.
I've driven loads of different cars and therefore I have lots to choose from. Rotate weekly - add an underscore or two - reverse them for extra effect.
Still, the easiest one to remember is of course " ".
The move by Intel into the DSP market will be good for them. The market demand for DSPs is huge and the potential for development is also great.
DSP's are going to shape the future of communications - Just look at the TI advert on CNN that runs for most of the day. It shows technology that I want and that is only possible by using DSP chips. TI may end up being forced out of the market and I think that the clearence given by the federal antitrust agencies should have forced Intel to create a seperate company for this rather than permit DSP Communication to be brought into the fold.
What could they be working on? I think it likely what wireless communications are going to have big development cash thrown at them. Already manufacturing the memory and StrongARM chips and now the DSPs - it would be stupid of them not to.
That's it. I think I'm going to take up rug weaving - or has someone already patented the process of taking strips of fabric and combining them in a pattern attached to a backing sheet in order to produce an item of floor covering?
The whole patent process has gone mad. It's got down to people just paying lawyers to produce patents for "industry standard" processes. Putting data into a shared memory space? Using it to rapidly generate pages based on user preferences either provided or randomly generated? Hang on...it's this what the vast majority of portals do already using "industry standards"? This is just some plain english wrapped around some technical jargon and served with a large cheque to the Patent Office.
I think I ought to patent the idea of submiting stupid patents that are no more than dressed up "industry standards"
What the fuck am I on about - "industry standards". There don't appear to be many left now...
This whole MP3 DJ is something that a group of us has been doing over here of a while. When ever any of us has had a party in the past year or so my buddy turns up with his PC and just lets it run all night playing from a pre-agreed play list.
Another thing that he's developed is a nice little VB application that lets people at the part search through his tracks for an artist and then add it to the playlist in a similar way to a jukebox in a bar. Add a touch screen display and a coin slot (and a decent OS) and he's onto a winner in the coin-op market!
Okay. Net enabled appliances are no new thing. Fridges, mircowaves and toasters have all been showcased with internet connectivity but as we were discussing the other day...is this really a good thing?
Sure, the internet is great but it does have it's place as far as I'm concerned and it's not in a bike!
Bringing internet capabilities to items such as games consoles (the Dreamcast) and television makes sense...putting access onto bikes does not.
Wireless communications have come a long way recently and with the arrival of IPv6 just around the corner I think we are going to see more and more of these products hitting the stores in the comming months. Just one request - please don't give my kettle connectivity, I would hate to wake up one morning and find that some kid has hacked it!
These students broke the law and they got off lightly. The punishments handed out hardly seem harsh when compared to the powers of the RIAA. The students were given access to a privately owned network and instructed on the Acceptable Usage Policy and then they abused the privilage.
"There was a good bit of uproar," Mr. Fowler acknowledged. "The fact that the university had not actively enforced these policies up to this point caught a lot of students off guard."
And this is supposed to make it alright?
I am upset about one comment from the article as it implies that the RIAA will force the responsibility upon the colleges. All it will take is for one school to be sued and access to computers will either be revoked across the board or replaced by locked down, MS Windows workstations managed by SMS refreshing the builds every night to ensure that no one can do anything anymore.
Power is nothing without control --or-- Who polices the police?
Are you being paid to manage the beta test of this thing or what?
Have you warned them that it's been posted here?
I think that in future people should be warned when they are going to get the/. effect in full force - just out of common politeness.
Still, great concept and a great site. I shall imediatly register and sell the contents of my brain to the highest bidder. This won't nett me much though so I will probably continue with my multi-national arms and drug business.
It's not so much/. or it's authors or it's contributors, it has to be Andover.Net - it can be no other.
When Roblimo posted this, he knew he was skating on very thin ice but he took the risk and it was posted and in the next few hours vast numbers of/.ers will skim over the document and realise that they are not financial market experts but come up with the same opinion.
What goes up, must come down.
Okay, this article/document/fact/fiction may not be the tool to bring Microsoft back into check but sooner or later it will happen.
From the short converastion I have just had with my financial advisor I have managed to glean this much...this article it's self is based completely on interpretation of laws. All this article does is play the other side of the laws that Microsoft is alleged to be breaching.
If this article was totally accurate, why the ambigous language in the disclaimer?
Disclaimer: Due to the dramatic implications of my study results and potential legal ramifications for Microsoft, I must emphatically state that the following is my opinion based upon my understanding of the facts. I assume no responsibility whatsoever for any investment related decision or misinterpretations of the tax law I have made in this analysis.
My 2 cents?/. hasn't sold out on this issue, Roblimo et al are just trying to cover their own backs/jobs/entire lives.
I am looking forward to this release. Wolf3d got me through my GCSE's and QII assisted me through my first couple of contracts. W2K should be great if Markham lives up to past form.
Well did anyone read past the first page? The article wasn't about the release of Wolf2000, it was about "...video games...murder simulators...youthful assassins...military killers." and the role that 'violent' games are supposed to play in the production of adolescent aggression.
Markham defends his possition and the possition of his company on the Littleton massacre to the end "...here I am playing a video game...and you tell me that's going to translate to holding a real gun? You show me someone who says that and I'll show you someone who belongs to the Flat Earth Society..."
Towards the bottom of page 5 Markham talks about the development of previous games touches on what is to come in the future. "...games will get more violent, he says. 'Why? Because they can.' "
IMHO a brilliant article coupled with great researched that will go unread by most as it is billed as a game announcment. COME ON!
Disposable computing fits fine with me, it just has to be usable in the first place.
Okay, it run's Linux on Intel with Netscape - Hardly anything ground breaking there in terms on technology is there? So Netscape is a little unreliable under Linux is it? Fine - the product would be supported by Oracle and they are not well know for releasing crap products are they? Okay there will probably be the usual grips of which Linux distro Oracle choose to base this box on but it really doesn't matter does it.
I'm looking forward to this hardware hitting the stores, lets hope it doesn't crash out like a "...complicated and buggy..." desktop PC.
Geeks Of the 'geek' types that I know they are not remotely depressed/opressed to the point that they wish to take up arms for their cause.Sure these people are pissed off that their inteligence and ability causes them to be outcasts but they are okay with it. These people have the intelligence to transend this sort of discrimation. Goths Of the 'goth' types that I know I see a common thread of 'Oh my god, everybody hates me, nobody loves, so I'm going off to school to kill everyone when high on drink and drugs that alter my perception of reality'. These people feel opressed. They feel descriminated against. They are prepared to 'fight the power/system' that causes the pain the percieve.
But by focusing in on sterotypes -- Geek/Goth/Jock/Nerd/Brain etc etc --we are no better than the powers that be who authorise and endorse the deployment of this sort of personality profilling.
Is personality profilling ever going to give us accurate results? I could kill my lover and get off with a few years in jail by claiming a crime of passion. I could storm in to the office of my 'pointy haired boss' and stab him and claim tempory insanity and get let off! If I have no history of violent behaviour and I do not fit into any 'profile' this could happen and frequently does!
So what am I saying? This sort of profiling does not work. We live in a diverse cultured socitity. We live in an age of information. Who can say what makes people commit these actions? No one can. Everyone can suggest actions that can contribute to actioning of violence but sometimes people just see red. Reason goes out of the window and violent acts just happen. Fact.
What can be done? I suppose that the only thing that can be done is generate a socitity that allows us to act individually without fear of oppression. But we are a long way from this while software such as this is permitted into our lives.
As a little a side - at sometime I will learn to spell!
VB has been around for 8 years. Java has been around for about 3 years. C/C++ was around when time dawned
But VB still came out on top when 150 developers where polled. Perhaps they only asked developers who worked in Microsoft houses.Perhaps Microsoft funded the survay. Perhaps we are all missing the marketing from Microsoft and are using the "wrong" dev tool when we whip something quick and dirty up in Perl.
IMHO C/C++ will never die out. Java will continue to grown as long as Sun and IBM continue their support. VB and the other Microsoft "Visual" (I never did work that out) development tools will last as long as Microsoft continues it's agressive marketing of NT server / Windows dekstop enviroments.
I guess they designers have taken a leaf out of the portable CD player book by adding memory to act as a buffer between the hard disk and the audio controller for their "jitter elimination" technology.
It's hardly new or ground breaking really but it is nice to be able to have more music on the move.
From the press release on www.pop.com "In order to make the entire content of the site accessible to the largest possible internet audience, computer users with 28.8k modems will be able to enjoy much of the programming, although those with faster modems and faster internet connections will obviously have improved video quality. As broadband penetration continues to grow, POP.com's programming will evolve to keep it on the cutting edge of technology."
About a year ago I was working for Tektronix in their thin client devision providing hardware and software support. Since then Tektronix have sold their thin client devision to NCD. I had the time to browse their website and I have found a possible hardware solution for you.
The NCD range of network computers run an embeded OS called NCBridge. This software supports HTML sessions via a local Netscape v4.x browser, a local windows manager (Motif), X11 support and ICA support for Citrix sessions.
The hardware used to be fantastic when Tektronix owned it and I can't really comment on NCD. But I can tell you that this hardware solution when coupled with a sensible server setup of maybe Citrix/NT-TSE and X hosts you could provide the end users with all of the requirements to access any solution you choose to develop for the server side.
As far as I recall the patent on DNA sequences is owned by the evolution process! Get what I mean?
What the hell comes next? Someone patenting 'air' and then leasing it to us for our consumption?
This is getting totally out of hand! I can understand why certain organisations feel the need to post patent applications as a result of the millions of dollars invested in research. They are, after all, businesses and they want a return on their money. But at what cost?
If this trend continues and, for example, a cure for cancer is discovered. Am I going to have to license the right to have the DNA sequence that caused the cancer in the first place before it could be treated?!?
As you can probably guess, I am not a medical boffin, I am man on the street. I do, however, understand the implications of this. It would be as bad as someone patenting the finger print!
Personally I have found that the sort of sites that internet.com offer do not give me anything extra. I am a member of several of their discussion lists but i usually delete them as they are full of trolls adding "me too" to the bottom of long in-line threads.
All I can hope for is that Linuxcentral doesn't go the same way as it would be a waste of a good portal.
Slashdot Mirror
My domain - pcresource.net - has nothing there right now. My domain is also similar to the domains of a few other people/companies.
While I have never been threatend with legal action by the American companies concerned I have been offered large sums of money to compensate me if I agree to hand over the domain.
So far I have refused. The law is on my side. I bought it. I own it. It's mine.
I would write back to the university (cc your ISP) and state the information that you know about the trademarks owned and also let them know about the services you offer (for free!) to their students. It would also help to get the students on your side. No university wants an uprising within it's students!
In short, don't give in. The law is on your side. Don't let them take you without a fight!
I personally prefer car reg numbers as they are hard to quess (random letters and numbers) but they mean something to me.
I've driven loads of different cars and therefore I have lots to choose from. Rotate weekly - add an underscore or two - reverse them for extra effect.
Still, the easiest one to remember is of course " ".
The move by Intel into the DSP market will be good for them. The market demand for DSPs is huge and the potential for development is also great.
DSP's are going to shape the future of communications - Just look at the TI advert on CNN that runs for most of the day. It shows technology that I want and that is only possible by using DSP chips. TI may end up being forced out of the market and I think that the clearence given by the federal antitrust agencies should have forced Intel to create a seperate company for this rather than permit DSP Communication to be brought into the fold.
What could they be working on? I think it likely what wireless communications are going to have big development cash thrown at them. Already manufacturing the memory and StrongARM chips and now the DSPs - it would be stupid of them not to.
That's it. I think I'm going to take up rug weaving - or has someone already patented the process of taking strips of fabric and combining them in a pattern attached to a backing sheet in order to produce an item of floor covering?
The whole patent process has gone mad. It's got down to people just paying lawyers to produce patents for "industry standard" processes. Putting data into a shared memory space? Using it to rapidly generate pages based on user preferences either provided or randomly generated? Hang on...it's this what the vast majority of portals do already using "industry standards"? This is just some plain english wrapped around some technical jargon and served with a large cheque to the Patent Office.
I think I ought to patent the idea of submiting stupid patents that are no more than dressed up "industry standards"
What the fuck am I on about - "industry standards". There don't appear to be many left now...
This whole MP3 DJ is something that a group of us has been doing over here of a while. When ever any of us has had a party in the past year or so my buddy turns up with his PC and just lets it run all night playing from a pre-agreed play list.
Another thing that he's developed is a nice little VB application that lets people at the part search through his tracks for an artist and then add it to the playlist in a similar way to a jukebox in a bar. Add a touch screen display and a coin slot (and a decent OS) and he's onto a winner in the coin-op market!
Woah...off topic or what!
Okay. Net enabled appliances are no new thing. Fridges, mircowaves and toasters have all been showcased with internet connectivity but as we were discussing the other day...is this really a good thing?
Sure, the internet is great but it does have it's place as far as I'm concerned and it's not in a bike!
Bringing internet capabilities to items such as games consoles (the Dreamcast) and television makes sense...putting access onto bikes does not.
Wireless communications have come a long way recently and with the arrival of IPv6 just around the corner I think we are going to see more and more of these products hitting the stores in the comming months. Just one request - please don't give my kettle connectivity, I would hate to wake up one morning and find that some kid has hacked it!
And this is supposed to make it alright?
I am upset about one comment from the article as it implies that the RIAA will force the responsibility upon the colleges. All it will take is for one school to be sued and access to computers will either be revoked across the board or replaced by locked down, MS Windows workstations managed by SMS refreshing the builds every night to ensure that no one can do anything anymore.
Power is nothing without control --or-- Who polices the police?
No worries man. Keep up the great work that you and the /. guys do.
I agree but...did you moderate this comment Roblimo?
Are you being paid to manage the beta test of this thing or what?
/. effect in full force - just out of common politeness.
Have you warned them that it's been posted here?
I think that in future people should be warned when they are going to get the
Still, great concept and a great site. I shall imediatly register and sell the contents of my brain to the highest bidder. This won't nett me much though so I will probably continue with my multi-national arms and drug business.
When Roblimo posted this, he knew he was skating on very thin ice but he took the risk and it was posted and in the next few hours vast numbers of
What goes up, must come down.
Okay, this article/document/fact/fiction may not be the tool to bring Microsoft back into check but sooner or later it will happen.
From the short converastion I have just had with my financial advisor I have managed to glean this much...this article it's self is based completely on interpretation of laws. All this article does is play the other side of the laws that Microsoft is alleged to be breaching.
If this article was totally accurate, why the ambigous language in the disclaimer?
My 2 cents?
Remember...We are
I am looking forward to this release.
Wolf3d got me through my GCSE's and QII assisted me through my first couple of contracts. W2K should be great if Markham lives up to past form.
Well did anyone read past the first page? The article wasn't about the release of Wolf2000, it was about "...video games...murder simulators...youthful assassins...military killers." and the role that 'violent' games are supposed to play in the production of adolescent aggression.
Markham defends his possition and the possition of his company on the Littleton massacre to the end "...here I am playing a video game...and you tell me that's going to translate to holding a real gun? You show me someone who says that and I'll show you someone who belongs to the Flat Earth Society..."
Towards the bottom of page 5 Markham talks about the development of previous games touches on what is to come in the future. "...games will get more violent, he says. 'Why? Because they can.' "
IMHO a brilliant article coupled with great researched that will go unread by most as it is billed as a game announcment. COME ON!
Disposable computing fits fine with me, it just has to be usable in the first place.
Okay, it run's Linux on Intel with Netscape - Hardly anything ground breaking there in terms on technology is there? So Netscape is a little unreliable under Linux is it? Fine - the product would be supported by Oracle and they are not well know for releasing crap products are they? Okay there will probably be the usual grips of which Linux distro Oracle choose to base this box on but it really doesn't matter does it.
I'm looking forward to this hardware hitting the stores, lets hope it doesn't crash out like a "...complicated and buggy..." desktop PC.
Geeks
Of the 'geek' types that I know they are not remotely depressed/opressed to the point that they wish to take up arms for their cause.Sure these people are pissed off that their inteligence and ability causes them to be outcasts but they are okay with it. These people have the intelligence to transend this sort of discrimation.
Goths
Of the 'goth' types that I know I see a common thread of 'Oh my god, everybody hates me, nobody loves, so I'm going off to school to kill everyone when high on drink and drugs that alter my perception of reality'. These people feel opressed. They feel descriminated against. They are prepared to 'fight the power/system' that causes the pain the percieve.
But by focusing in on sterotypes -- Geek/Goth/Jock/Nerd/Brain etc etc --we are no better than the powers that be who authorise and endorse the deployment of this sort of personality profilling.
Is personality profilling ever going to give us accurate results? I could kill my lover and get off with a few years in jail by claiming a crime of passion. I could storm in to the office of my 'pointy haired boss' and stab him and claim tempory insanity and get let off! If I have no history of violent behaviour and I do not fit into any 'profile' this could happen and frequently does!
So what am I saying? This sort of profiling does not work. We live in a diverse cultured socitity. We live in an age of information. Who can say what makes people commit these actions? No one can. Everyone can suggest actions that can contribute to actioning of violence but sometimes people just see red. Reason goes out of the window and violent acts just happen. Fact.
What can be done? I suppose that the only thing that can be done is generate a socitity that allows us to act individually without fear of oppression. But we are a long way from this while software such as this is permitted into our lives.
As a little a side - at sometime I will learn to spell!
So now we have User Friendly - The Book.
How long before User Friendly - The Movie? That would sure beat South Park for me!
VB has been around for 8 years.
Java has been around for about 3 years.
C/C++ was around when time dawned
But VB still came out on top when 150 developers where polled.
Perhaps they only asked developers who worked in Microsoft houses.Perhaps Microsoft funded the survay. Perhaps we are all missing the marketing from Microsoft and are using the "wrong" dev tool when we whip something quick and dirty up in Perl.
IMHO C/C++ will never die out. Java will continue to grown as long as Sun and IBM continue their support. VB and the other Microsoft "Visual" (I never did work that out) development tools will last as long as Microsoft continues it's agressive marketing of NT server / Windows dekstop enviroments.
I guess they designers have taken a leaf out of the portable CD player book by adding memory to act as a buffer between the hard disk and the audio controller for their "jitter elimination" technology.
It's hardly new or ground breaking really but it is nice to be able to have more music on the move.
Where do I sign up?
From the press release on www.pop.com
"In order to make the entire content of the site accessible to the largest possible internet audience, computer users with 28.8k modems will be able to enjoy much of the programming, although those with faster modems and faster internet connections will obviously have improved video quality. As broadband penetration continues to grow, POP.com's programming will evolve to keep it on the cutting edge of technology."
The Press Release
About a year ago I was working for Tektronix in their thin client devision providing hardware and software support. Since then Tektronix have sold their thin client devision to NCD. I had the time to browse their website and I have found a possible hardware solution for you.
The NCD range of network computers run an embeded OS called NCBridge. This software supports HTML sessions via a local Netscape v4.x browser, a local windows manager (Motif), X11 support and ICA support for Citrix sessions.
The hardware used to be fantastic when Tektronix owned it and I can't really comment on NCD. But I can tell you that this hardware solution when coupled with a sensible server setup of maybe Citrix/NT-TSE and X hosts you could provide the end users with all of the requirements to access any solution you choose to develop for the server side.
The NCD Network Computer model list
NCD Home Page
This just goes to prove the old adage - Some people have far too much free time.
I love it.
As far as I recall the patent on DNA sequences is owned by the evolution process! Get what I mean?
What the hell comes next? Someone patenting 'air' and then leasing it to us for our consumption?
This is getting totally out of hand! I can understand why certain organisations feel the need to post patent applications as a result of the millions of dollars invested in research. They are, after all, businesses and they want a return on their money. But at what cost?
If this trend continues and, for example, a cure for cancer is discovered. Am I going to have to license the right to have the DNA sequence that caused the cancer in the first place before it could be treated?!?
As you can probably guess, I am not a medical boffin, I am man on the street. I do, however, understand the implications of this. It would be as bad as someone patenting the finger print!
I beleive the "silly sounding english name" was Sir Issac Newton.
Apologies - I got myself a little too confused in my previous comment, please ignore me.
Personally I have found that the sort of sites that internet.com offer do not give me anything extra. I am a member of several of their discussion lists but i usually delete them as they are full of trolls adding "me too" to the bottom of long in-line threads.
All I can hope for is that Linuxcentral doesn't go the same way as it would be a waste of a good portal.