For all those who're scandalized: it was filed for in 1997, issued 10/99. So why is this mean, evil, and nasty now, but nobody said anything in November 1997? By my lights, the time to whine about it was when there was a chance at shooting it down as prior art...
Okay, let's say you've won your suit against napster. NOBODY ever trades another Metallica single on-line. What now? You already have some 335,435 people who won't buy another album, and you've annoyed enough others that they'll think twice before buying another album. You'll still have fans, but they'll be the ones who just don't get it, and you've never catered to them. What do you expect to gain from all of this?
this was in the same news story as the Shuttle going up to tow the ISS. The "glass cockpit" is being live tested on the mission. We gotta have a way to moderate stories as well as comments.
I really don't see the problem with the vast (or is it half-vast?) majority of new users having no clue as to what USENET is: for the most part, the forums (fora?) they DO know about have a sudden plunge (or is it dip?) in SNR the minute that they get online. The REALLY funny part is that the newbie referenced in the story was none other than a Microschlong wee^H^H^Hemployee: IMNSHO MS is mostly responsible for the growth in newsfeed size (MS was one of the two large culprits in HTML mail/news).
You see, van Vogt's death is simply fact cheking the Goessyn "deaths" in his Null-A series...stay tuned for van Vogt II, coming soon to a planet near you.
If anybody really thinks that WD's bailing out of the SCSI market is a trend, I can help you get in to the "new wave" IDE variants by taking all your SCSI drives off your hands at fire sale prices:) Seriously, I've never had any good experiences with WD, either IDE or SCSI, so won't shed any crocodile tears for their loss, and I really doubt that this means the end of SCSI--although it may mean the end of BAD SCSI...
Since the SSC is now pretty much a dead issue, when do you think that a Accelerator with the capability of definitively proving/disproving the existence of the Higgs Boson will be built?
A lawyer for one unhappy consumer who registered more than 100 of these new domains said the governing bodies could have a difficult time proving the recent glitch was a mistake, as it took them three months to discover the error.
Am I the only one that wishes this lawyer no good over this issue? 100 new registrations means only one thing: cybersquatting, and if the dumba$$ gets burned, I for one am not going to lose any sleep over it.
Pardon me if I don't jump right up and download/compile it: I'm waiting for patch-int-2.2.14.X. I'm willing to bet that I'll never see hide nor hair of it anywhere on Andover, either:/ C'est la vie, pero por la tras;)
The only problem with the "low cost" idea is the minor fact that you gotta drop a few G's to get any authoring software AFAIK. You can get free demos of photoshop plugins, and free browser plugins, but the authoring software is OTO $2K. Heralding Jpeg2000 as a benefit for OSS is a little premature ATM...
Not necessarily. You only have to provide copies of the GPL portion of the source. You're free to license your own part of the code however you wish. So you could modify the code, and the modifications are your own to license, with the caveat that what was previously GPLed must stay GPLed. However, you DO have a point as to what happens when the base code gets versioned upstream if you provide a link vice your own site. But the GPL can't take away any rights for your OWN ode, it's just a convenient mechanism for releasing it.
Well, it happened, The RIAA found out the hard way that you can't bolt the barn door once the Horse has run. The only thing that threats have done on the Internet, in my experience, has added coverage to what would have been a boring topic, and to strengthen resolve to do exactly what the plaintiffs don't want. The RIAA played rough, they found that netizens can get very rough indeed, and if they want any sympathy from me, Merriam-Webster comes to mind.
By that logic, they also had the right to do nothing at all. First, it's THEIR network, one can consequently ask the question "what was the RIAA doing looking through a private network in the first place?" Secondly, since it's a private network, there MAY not even be a copyright infringement--copyrights cover public transmission of copyrighted works, not use within private property.
I've gotten into arguements about this before, and I'm not gonna stop now. First--maybe you can overwhelm the ISA bus with some of today's networks: but what about the tehnologies that wiill NEVER overwhelm the ISA bus. Can you ever see a POTS based modem that will overwhelm a 115Kbps bus? Show me the typist that can type over 1000 cpm, so I guess that 9600 baud serial keyboard is gonna last a while. The reason we shouldn't scrap all legacy hardware is there is a good portion of it that exeeds it's design specifiations to this day. The PCI soundcards that you mentioned are OBJETIVELY no better to the Human Ear, since a good 16-bit soundcard can produce two sounds that are separated by so little that the ear treats them as the same (either in duration, tone, or volume). A floppy still holds as much as the average typist an turn out in a workday (~40,000 words). What the problem between Legacy and Bleeding Edge truly is, is all Hype. I can remember my first seduction by the bleeding edge: I wanted to get an Expansion Unit for our TRS-80 (expanded to 32K of RAM!!!) and my dad said that I hadn't filled up the 16K we already had. To be perfetly honest, we really haven't even filled up that 16K yet--we've just expanded what would have been 4K of stuff to 40M. The plain and simple fact is that bleeding edge technologies are often being used as pathetic excuses for a lack of creativity and common sense: Why should we throw out legay systems if at the end of the day with the bleeding edge technology we've often been less productive with the bleeding edge stuff than we would've been with the legacy stuff? Let me propose a hypothetical duel: The Compaq I I had in HS and you on a Proliant: now the task is to type up a term paper. Ready, Set, GO!! At the end of the day, we've both typed about the same amount of verbiage--you might have a few photos, and a few web quotes, but the plain fact is that the papers aren't that much different in bulk--the winner is the one that's most prepared for the assignment and has the most skill at writing, not who had the flashier computer. omputers are simply a tool, and anyone that forgets this is asking for trouble. I've seen tools that are older than any living person still do their jobs--better that the alternative in some cases (like my Grandpa's RR lantern that provides light when the Power Co. can't) If you wanna buy a computer without ISA slots, fine--just don't force ME to throw away the tools *I* happen to be comfortable and productive with. The IBM PC broke new ground when you could move most everything you had on an old computer to a new one--everything built for a 64K 8086 PC could fit onto an 2M 80286 AT with no hassles whatsoever: this couldn't be done reliably with any manufacturer before then--the apple I and ][ weren't backwards compatible, the TRS-80s weren't, and the Commodores weren't. This couldn't have gone on forever, but you'll pardon me if I think that the failure to have backwards compatibility means that I don't think they should use PC to describe these new monsters.
Yes, a very good thing--if all you have to say is that you made the first post, you really oughta remember the Mark Twain quote "better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
Why are all these companies seemingly looking for exuses to make their web sites incompatible with X browser--the old NS-only sites, the IE-only sites, etc.? Whatever happened to HTML being browser independant? The WWW is starting to stand for Won't Work Well. Well, it's THEIR throats they're utting: I ain't going to do any worse for not having the opportunity to be advertised to, but thye'll be MUH worse if I make my buying decisions in their self-imposed silence.
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Okay, I stand corrected: Raging.Com doesn't support LYNX, and I....w3m is cool and all that, but I use lynx by default (old habits die hard...)
Raging.Com doesn't support text-only browsers, and I don't support GUI browsers. I guess that's the way the cooky crumbles :(
For all those who're scandalized: it was filed for in 1997, issued 10/99. So why is this mean, evil, and nasty now, but nobody said anything in November 1997? By my lights, the time to whine about it was when there was a chance at shooting it down as prior art...
Okay, let's say you've won your suit against napster. NOBODY ever trades another Metallica single on-line. What now? You already have some 335,435 people who won't buy another album, and you've annoyed enough others that they'll think twice before buying another album. You'll still have fans, but they'll be the ones who just don't get it, and you've never catered to them. What do you expect to gain from all of this?
I find that remark in extremely bad taste, so watch out when *I* meet *you*, because you now have a lesson in manners coming.
Hidden back doors on Space Stations could ruin your whole day :)
this was in the same news story as the Shuttle going up to tow the ISS. The "glass cockpit" is being live tested on the mission. We gotta have a way to moderate stories as well as comments.
I really don't see the problem with the vast (or is it half-vast?) majority of new users having no clue as to what USENET is: for the most part, the forums (fora?) they DO know about have a sudden plunge (or is it dip?) in SNR the minute that they get online. The REALLY funny part is that the newbie referenced in the story was none other than a Microschlong wee^H^H^Hemployee: IMNSHO MS is mostly responsible for the growth in newsfeed size (MS was one of the two large culprits in HTML mail/news).
You see, van Vogt's death is simply fact cheking the Goessyn "deaths" in his Null-A series...stay tuned for van Vogt II, coming soon to a planet near you.
Seriously, I've never had any good experiences with WD, either IDE or SCSI, so won't shed any crocodile tears for their loss, and I really doubt that this means the end of SCSI--although it may mean the end of BAD SCSI...
Since the SSC is now pretty much a dead issue, when do you think that a Accelerator with the capability of definitively proving/disproving the existence of the Higgs Boson will be built?
these new domains said the governing bodies could have a difficult
time proving the recent glitch was a mistake, as it took them three
months to discover the error.
Am I the only one that wishes this lawyer no good over this issue? 100 new registrations means only one thing: cybersquatting, and if the dumba$$ gets burned, I for one am not going to lose any sleep over it.
Pardon me if I don't jump right up and download/compile it: I'm waiting for patch-int-2.2.14.X. I'm willing to bet that I'll never see hide nor hair of it anywhere on Andover, either :/ C'est la vie, pero por la tras ;)
The only problem with the "low cost" idea is the minor fact that you gotta drop a few G's to get any authoring software AFAIK. You can get free demos of photoshop plugins, and free browser plugins, but the authoring software is OTO $2K. Heralding Jpeg2000 as a benefit for OSS is a little premature ATM...
Then use OpenLSD, it's been audited to ensure only the safest of trips :)
Not necessarily. You only have to provide copies of the GPL portion of the source. You're free to license your own part of the code however you wish. So you could modify the code, and the modifications are your own to license, with the caveat that what was previously GPLed must stay GPLed. However, you DO have a point as to what happens when the base code gets versioned upstream if you provide a link vice your own site. But the GPL can't take away any rights for your OWN ode, it's just a convenient mechanism for releasing it.
Why not just pull Webster's unabridged from Project Gutenberg? :)
There's four hosts on the download page--maybe you just got unlucky on the redirect?
Well, it happened, The RIAA found out the hard way that you can't bolt the barn door once the Horse has run. The only thing that threats have done on the Internet, in my experience, has added coverage to what would have been a boring topic, and to strengthen resolve to do exactly what the plaintiffs don't want. The RIAA played rough, they found that netizens can get very rough indeed, and if they want any sympathy from me, Merriam-Webster comes to mind.
I've gotten into arguements about this before, and I'm not gonna stop now. First--maybe you can overwhelm the ISA bus with some of today's networks: but what about the tehnologies that wiill NEVER overwhelm the ISA bus. Can you ever see a POTS based modem that will overwhelm a 115Kbps bus? Show me the typist that can type over 1000 cpm, so I guess that 9600 baud serial keyboard is gonna last a while. The reason we shouldn't scrap all legacy hardware is there is a good portion of it that exeeds it's design specifiations to this day. The PCI soundcards that you mentioned are OBJETIVELY no better to the Human Ear, since a good 16-bit soundcard can produce two sounds that are separated by so little that the ear treats them as the same (either in duration, tone, or volume). A floppy still holds as much as the average typist an turn out in a workday (~40,000 words). What the problem between Legacy and Bleeding Edge truly is, is all Hype.
I can remember my first seduction by the bleeding edge: I wanted to get an Expansion Unit for our TRS-80 (expanded to 32K of RAM!!!) and my dad said that I hadn't filled up the 16K we already had. To be perfetly honest, we really haven't even filled up that 16K yet--we've just expanded what would have been 4K of stuff to 40M.
The plain and simple fact is that bleeding edge technologies are often being used as pathetic excuses for a lack of creativity and common sense: Why should we throw out legay systems if at the end of the day with the bleeding edge technology we've often been less productive with the bleeding edge stuff than we would've been with the legacy stuff?
Let me propose a hypothetical duel: The Compaq I I had in HS and you on a Proliant: now the task is to type up a term paper. Ready, Set, GO!! At the end of the day, we've both typed about the same amount of verbiage--you might have a few photos, and a few web quotes, but the plain fact is that the papers aren't that much different in bulk--the winner is the one that's most prepared for the assignment and has the most skill at writing, not who had the flashier computer. omputers are simply a tool, and anyone that forgets this is asking for trouble. I've seen tools that are older than any living person still do their jobs--better that the alternative in some cases (like my Grandpa's RR lantern that provides light when the Power Co. can't)
If you wanna buy a computer without ISA slots, fine--just don't force ME to throw away the tools *I* happen to be comfortable and productive with. The IBM PC broke new ground when you could move most everything you had on an old computer to a new one--everything built for a 64K 8086 PC could fit onto an 2M 80286 AT with no hassles whatsoever: this couldn't be done reliably with any manufacturer before then--the apple I and ][ weren't backwards compatible, the TRS-80s weren't, and the Commodores weren't. This couldn't have gone on forever, but you'll pardon me if I think that the failure to have backwards compatibility means that I don't think they should use PC to describe these new monsters.
Yes, a very good thing--if all you have to say is that you made the first post, you really oughta remember the Mark Twain quote "better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
Look at www.debian.org/distrib/vendors for "Development Snapshot" in the "CD Type" field...
Why are all these companies seemingly looking for exuses to make their web sites incompatible with X browser--the old NS-only sites, the IE-only sites, etc.? Whatever happened to HTML being browser independant? The WWW is starting to stand for Won't Work Well. Well, it's THEIR throats they're utting: I ain't going to do any worse for not having the opportunity to be advertised to, but thye'll be MUH worse if I make my buying decisions in their self-imposed silence.