SGI has a proud history of innovation in graphics, microprocessors, operating systems, etc, but this post has to do with one other small part of that history... their cases.
Well before the iMac, SGI always had instantly recognisable hardware. I wish there were PC case manufacturers with the same vision, who would churn out something stylish and interesting that doesn't look like an Air Jordan.
The EU was initially set up as a free trading group. The aim has since become to create a level playing field that allows businesses from all member countries to operate in the eurozone; this isn't just free trade but e.g the free movement of capital and labour. This inevitably means changes at the political level to harmonise standards and regulations.
So I think harmonising licensing and copyright systems is a natural step, and a good one SO LONG AS it is not seized as an opportunity for radical reform in the favour of corporations over the citizen, e.g. extending the lifetime of copyright.
Grokster (and its workalikes) is designed, advertised, and used as a way of illegally distributing copyrighted materials. The court just found that if you run a service designed to help people break the law that you will have some amount of responsibility in the acts.
Wouldn't this also apply to Apple's "Rip. Mix. Burn." campaign? Also, does it just apply to software, or to hardware also, e.g. my PVR?
That is, with this ruling, anything that travels over broadband is information and not telecommunications, so it supports keeping federal regulations of VOIP off of VOIP providers.
Pesky regulations such as that dialling 911 works.
What "appliance" computers need is an interface more like PDA interfaces than Windows; i.e. after booting, big buttons that say: email, browse the intarweb, play a game, listen to music, watch a movie, etc.
I'm wondering whether Microsoft will include drivers for Windows to run on the new Intel Macs. So you can't switch from Windows to Mac without buying a Mac, but you can switch from Mac to Windows with a simple install.
I was going to bitch about how spending money on going to Mars was a waste when it could be spent on, say, a strategy for dealing with climate change...
...until I thought, maybe going to Mars is Bush's strategy for dealing with climate change?
I found that the film lacked an epic quality wrt SFX. There were few scenes of large-scale destruction, no cruisers slowly crunching into cities, that kind of thing.
With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.
GNU made most of the core programs that Linux normally uses, and they are universally considered excellent. So why is it so hard for them to make a kernel?
Most of the team left in the mid-90s to work on Duke Nukem Forever.
The application is probably too specific (a traffic management system for tunnels) that open sourcing it wouldn't have helped society too much (any geek here with a tunnel in his backyard?).
With good software engineering there would be tons of great reusable code underpinning the system that would hugely benefit the open source movement and, in theory at least, make it cheaper and faster to develop software for other government projects.
What you'd really need is a set of standards for government software development that ensures the documentation needed to reuse code is part of the deliverable.
I didn't do much physics at school. Is there a good book (or other single source) that tells me how I can recreate the experiments, maybe with some history and comment on the significance of the experiment?
Countries who implement the treaty should have the right to impose tariffs on imports from countries that do not, on the assumption that polluting countries can produce goods more cheaply than those who must comply with emissions standards, and so cheap imports would otherwise kill local producers.
This is why I am against free trade. Protectionism isn't always bad, and free trade isn't always good.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it's a good point. With a knife you have to be much closer (unless you're a carnival knife thrower!), and you're probably much less likely to inflict a fatal wound.
Unlike guns, knives have many uses beyond killing.
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Hmm... judging by the screenshots...
DELETE FROM user WHERE username LIKE "Gu%en";
Surely the next news item has to be "slashdot editor reads TFA"!
SGI has a proud history of innovation in graphics, microprocessors, operating systems, etc, but this post has to do with one other small part of that history... their cases.
Well before the iMac, SGI always had instantly recognisable hardware. I wish there were PC case manufacturers with the same vision, who would churn out something stylish and interesting that doesn't look like an Air Jordan.
My favourites: the Octane http://www.sgi.com/products/remarketed/octane/, and Tezro http://www.sgi.com/products/workstations/tezro/.
The EU was initially set up as a free trading group. The aim has since become to create a level playing field that allows businesses from all member countries to operate in the eurozone; this isn't just free trade but e.g the free movement of capital and labour. This inevitably means changes at the political level to harmonise standards and regulations.
So I think harmonising licensing and copyright systems is a natural step, and a good one SO LONG AS it is not seized as an opportunity for radical reform in the favour of corporations over the citizen, e.g. extending the lifetime of copyright.
Wouldn't this also apply to Apple's "Rip. Mix. Burn." campaign? Also, does it just apply to software, or to hardware also, e.g. my PVR?
Pesky regulations such as that dialling 911 works.
Could there be an equivalent for running Mac apps on Windows?
That's Bram Cohen, author of Bittorrent.
What "appliance" computers need is an interface more like PDA interfaces than Windows; i.e. after booting, big buttons that say: email, browse the intarweb, play a game, listen to music, watch a movie, etc.
I'm wondering whether Microsoft will include drivers for Windows to run on the new Intel Macs. So you can't switch from Windows to Mac without buying a Mac, but you can switch from Mac to Windows with a simple install.
I was going to bitch about how spending money on going to Mars was a waste when it could be spent on, say, a strategy for dealing with climate change...
...until I thought, maybe going to Mars is Bush's strategy for dealing with climate change?
I found that the film lacked an epic quality wrt SFX. There were few scenes of large-scale destruction, no cruisers slowly crunching into cities, that kind of thing.
If we can turn radioactivity into electricity, can't we build generators around toxic nuclear waste?
The driving force behind the legislation to abolish analog TV is the big media companies, who want to "plug the analog hole".
Until the signal plugs into my robotic central nervous system, there will always be an anlogue hole... my dilated pupil.
With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.
I'm sure India can cope.
Defines the genre of games that are undefined.
"It's the legal fees that are battering the company," said OptInRealBig.com lawyer Steven Richter
Spammer or no, I don't like the principle that if you run out of money to defend yourself, you lose.
GNU made most of the core programs that Linux normally uses, and they are universally considered excellent. So why is it so hard for them to make a kernel?
Most of the team left in the mid-90s to work on Duke Nukem Forever.
The application is probably too specific (a traffic management system for tunnels) that open sourcing it wouldn't have helped society too much (any geek here with a tunnel in his backyard?).
With good software engineering there would be tons of great reusable code underpinning the system that would hugely benefit the open source movement and, in theory at least, make it cheaper and faster to develop software for other government projects.
What you'd really need is a set of standards for government software development that ensures the documentation needed to reuse code is part of the deliverable.
Re: the top physics experiments
I didn't do much physics at school. Is there a good book (or other single source) that tells me how I can recreate the experiments, maybe with some history and comment on the significance of the experiment?
Countries who implement the treaty should have the right to impose tariffs on imports from countries that do not, on the assumption that polluting countries can produce goods more cheaply than those who must comply with emissions standards, and so cheap imports would otherwise kill local producers.
This is why I am against free trade. Protectionism isn't always bad, and free trade isn't always good.
TIMOTHY [to self]: Shit, better disable the auto-dupe cron jobs.
No.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it's a good point. With a knife you have to be much closer (unless you're a carnival knife thrower!), and you're probably much less likely to inflict a fatal wound.
Unlike guns, knives have many uses beyond killing.