This actually works pretty well. You can "sub domain" your name space. Where I am now all the Notes servers are named after dead actors. If someone says they can access John Candy you know they have a Notes problem.
"Why, for example, would midwesterners grasp technology so much better than northeasterners?"
It doesn't even seem to say that. It says that midwesterners are more CONFIDENT in their abilities with technologies. Their confidence may be totally unfounded.
"Wrong. Code may be speech, because it is saying something in a real (machine) language. Money is not speech, it is property."
Half right. In 1776 terms if I can't use my money to buy a printing press to print my pamphlets due to some law - you have limited my right to free speech in an unconstitutional manner. In more current terms, you cannot legally limit Ross Perot or Steve Forbes from spending their own cash on TV ads or whatever to further their political ambitions. You can *contractually* limit them by saying IF you want campain matching funds THEN you must follow these campaign spending limits, but that's about it.
A lot of people that support campaign finance reform in principle end up coming out against it in practice. It's blatantly unconstitutional as a limitation on speech. Money is speech, just like code is speech. What's the point of getting excited about passing a law that is just going to waste the court's time when they have to stricke it down.
"Heh... the Originals were printed using the Technicolor process, and are as unfaded and beautiful today as they were in 1937. You haven't really seen Snow White unless you've seen a nitrate Technicolor print."
At the risk of veering further offtopic, I have and I agree. Not Snow White, but there was a chinese production house making Technicolor plates into the 80's. Fantastic looking stuff, but it was too expensive for the few people that cared and they finally shut down. I don't know about the stability of the technicolor, but that nitrate is going to be shot by now.
"In reality, nobody could actual compete with disney, there product quality is to high."
This is an excellent point. They don't really *need* copywrite on that old stuff. Take the new DVD release of Snow White. That thing is amazing. If the original film was public domain - who cares? I could download a mpg of the faded, scratched up original for free or pay Disney $17 for a beautiful remastered version with dolby digial sound and hours and hours of extras. BTW, they get a new copyright on the DVD.
If the original were passing into public domain I think Disney would have even more incentive to produce this type of work to compete with the PD stuff.
garyr
PS: I try to boycott MPAA members' DVD, but when they come out with something like that I end up not only supporting an MPAA member, but one of the worst behaved members. I'm not a perfect person.
Just FYI - Star Wars merchandise is protected by trademark, not copywrite. You would be able to copy the movie freely, but not make your own t-shirt with a wookie(TM) on it.
I know all about Lady Ada 1815-1852
. He's old enough to group with Adm. Grace as being of the same "bunch", but the grouping with someone that died a hundred years earlier seemed head scratching.
PS: This stuff isn't even taught in school. You may learn about Cobol, but not about the person that invented it.
"So what should they do? Validate patents through a slashdot poll?
"
There's the kernel of an idea here. Not slashdot, the horror... But posting a summary to a technical board in the subject area during patent review could help. If 90% of the responses say it's BS, prior art or apallingly obvious to a practicioner in the field - don't grant it.
"I'm wondering when we are going to start seeing classes coming up that deal with Computer History were people can learn about Berner, Hooper, Lovelace and the rest of the bunch."
Lovelace? Dude, he's not *THAT* old. Unless you are talking about those terrible rumours about he and that geek groupie Linda.
On the anime dvds you are only telling half the story - as far as I can tell they have not purchased any new ones in the past year. try a search for anything released in 2001 and you will not find it. I've been with them since 12/99, but they bang for the buck is getting more slender all the time.
All the apps bundled with DV/X were X apps. The cool thing that few people understood was its ability to run X clients locally. It had all the standard x apps that were around. ico, xeyes, maze, etc. People ported most everything else (such as Mosaic) and made them available.
Do I know you? If so, you are remembering sideways. The mike was on an SGI machine, we did evesdropping from DV/X bozes. Much more fun was the SGI with its mike on in the board room.
A funny comment, but that's arithmetic. I've known a few mathemeticians that are miserable at arithmetic. It's quite common. Seems counterintuitive, but think about how many programmers can't spell worth a damn.
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Remote controls and "driving down the cost of GPS" got me thinking. I could use a GPS on my remote control so I could just find it. A really cheap and small GPS combined with some way to transmit its ID - and then a master device to tell me where the Hell it is. Expand that out to a small cheap widget that can be stuck to random objects to tell where the Hell they've gotten to and you may actually have a business.
garyr
and yes - I'm talking out my ass, but this is slashdot after all.
Actually a pretty good article, but it reads like it has been sitting on the the shelf for ~18 months. Mentions Mononoke as Miyazaki's newest work (no mention of Sen to Chiro) and the comments on Astro Boy reflect that he must have recently seen the (semi) restored original pilot episode. Actually sounds like he was in the room at the Long Beach, CA film fest in... late 1999?
Mine sucks worse than yours. I've written to mine. He (Howard "Buck Mckeon R-CA) doesn't just blow me off with "nobody cares" but actively works for the other side. He could care less what I think. I didn't vote for him and he doesn't care about that, he has a safe seat. All I can do is work for whoever opposes him, even though they don't stand a chance against his campaign warchest.
Could be worse, my sister and mother live in Mary Bono's (formerly Sonny's widow) district.
the process isn't working and hasn't been for a long time
"In years past, things like the cave troll in LotR would have been done with a guy in a suit, or hydraulics or such."
How soon they forget Ray Harryhausen. In years past he would have done the cave troll and it would have looked..... about like it did in LOTR. That thing had a definite Golden Eye of Sinbad vibe to it.
Slashdot Mirror
This actually works pretty well. You can "sub domain" your name space. Where I am now all the Notes servers are named after dead actors. If someone says they can access John Candy you know they have a Notes problem.
"Why, for example, would midwesterners grasp technology so much better than northeasterners?"
It doesn't even seem to say that. It says that midwesterners are more CONFIDENT in their abilities with technologies. Their confidence may be totally unfounded.
The guitars themselves look very stupid. The Boba Fet knob is going on my list though.
"Wrong. Code may be speech, because it is saying something in a real (machine) language. Money is not speech, it is property."
Half right. In 1776 terms if I can't use my money to buy a printing press to print my pamphlets due to some law - you have limited my right to free speech in an unconstitutional manner. In more current terms, you cannot legally limit Ross Perot or Steve Forbes from spending their own cash on TV ads or whatever to further their political ambitions. You can *contractually* limit them by saying IF you want campain matching funds THEN you must follow these campaign spending limits, but that's about it.
A lot of people that support campaign finance reform in principle end up coming out against it in practice. It's blatantly unconstitutional as a limitation on speech. Money is speech, just like code is speech. What's the point of getting excited about passing a law that is just going to waste the court's time when they have to stricke it down.
JMS: Lois Bujold called - whe wants her Vor back...
Maybe I've been watching too much Sopranos, but it kinda looks like one.
"Heh ... the Originals were printed using the Technicolor process, and are as unfaded and beautiful today as they were in 1937. You haven't really seen Snow White unless you've seen a nitrate Technicolor print."
At the risk of veering further offtopic, I have and I agree. Not Snow White, but there was a chinese production house making Technicolor plates into the 80's. Fantastic looking stuff, but it was too expensive for the few people that cared and they finally shut down. I don't know about the stability of the technicolor, but that nitrate is going to be shot by now.
"In reality, nobody could actual compete with disney, there product quality is to high."
This is an excellent point. They don't really *need* copywrite on that old stuff. Take the new DVD release of Snow White. That thing is amazing. If the original film was public domain - who cares? I could download a mpg of the faded, scratched up original for free or pay Disney $17 for a beautiful remastered version with dolby digial sound and hours and hours of extras. BTW, they get a new copyright on the DVD.
If the original were passing into public domain I think Disney would have even more incentive to produce this type of work to compete with the PD stuff.
garyr
PS: I try to boycott MPAA members' DVD, but when they come out with something like that I end up not only supporting an MPAA member, but one of the worst behaved members. I'm not a perfect person.
Just FYI - Star Wars merchandise is protected by trademark, not copywrite. You would be able to copy the movie freely, but not make your own t-shirt with a wookie(TM) on it.
I know all about Lady Ada 1815-1852
. He's old enough to group with Adm. Grace as being of the same "bunch", but the grouping with someone that died a hundred years earlier seemed head scratching.
PS: This stuff isn't even taught in school. You may learn about Cobol, but not about the person that invented it.
"So what should they do? Validate patents through a slashdot poll?
"
There's the kernel of an idea here. Not slashdot, the horror... But posting a summary to a technical board in the subject area during patent review could help. If 90% of the responses say it's BS, prior art or apallingly obvious to a practicioner in the field - don't grant it.
"I'm wondering when we are going to start seeing classes coming up that deal with Computer History were people can learn about Berner, Hooper, Lovelace and the rest of the bunch."
Lovelace? Dude, he's not *THAT* old. Unless you are talking about those terrible rumours about he and that geek groupie Linda.
On the anime dvds you are only telling half the story - as far as I can tell they have not purchased any new ones in the past year. try a search for anything released in 2001 and you will not find it. I've been with them since 12/99, but they bang for the buck is getting more slender all the time.
who says he doesn't now? You'd be surprised who's behind some of these aliases
"Open source terabyte relation databases? Hello?"
Human Genome Project? Last I heard, PostgresSQL
hello..... Mike, right
-1 wrong....
All the apps bundled with DV/X were X apps. The cool thing that few people understood was its ability to run X clients locally. It had all the standard x apps that were around. ico, xeyes, maze, etc. People ported most everything else (such as Mosaic) and made them available.
Do I know you? If so, you are remembering sideways. The mike was on an SGI machine, we did evesdropping from DV/X bozes. Much more fun was the SGI with its mike on in the board room.
A funny comment, but that's arithmetic. I've known a few mathemeticians that are miserable at arithmetic. It's quite common. Seems counterintuitive, but think about how many programmers can't spell worth a damn.
Remote controls and "driving down the cost of GPS" got me thinking. I could use a GPS on my remote control so I could just find it. A really cheap and small GPS combined with some way to transmit its ID - and then a master device to tell me where the Hell it is. Expand that out to a small cheap widget that can be stuck to random objects to tell where the Hell they've gotten to and you may actually have a business.
garyr
and yes - I'm talking out my ass, but this is slashdot after all.
Actually a pretty good article, but it reads like it has been sitting on the the shelf for ~18 months. Mentions Mononoke as Miyazaki's newest work (no mention of Sen to Chiro) and the comments on Astro Boy reflect that he must have recently seen the (semi) restored original pilot episode. Actually sounds like he was in the room at the Long Beach, CA film fest in ... late 1999?
Mine sucks worse than yours. I've written to mine. He (Howard "Buck Mckeon R-CA) doesn't just blow me off with "nobody cares" but actively works for the other side. He could care less what I think. I didn't vote for him and he doesn't care about that, he has a safe seat. All I can do is work for whoever opposes him, even though they don't stand a chance against his campaign warchest.
Could be worse, my sister and mother live in Mary Bono's (formerly Sonny's widow) district.
the process isn't working and hasn't been for a long time
I've still an old concurrent machine that uses these. I've been trying to kill it for years. One more nail in the coffin!
"In years past, things like the cave troll in LotR would have been done with a guy in a suit, or hydraulics or such."
How soon they forget Ray Harryhausen. In years past he would have done the cave troll and it would have looked..... about like it did in LOTR. That thing had a definite Golden Eye of Sinbad vibe to it.