Beyond that, he also introduced a similar bill back in 2007 that died in committee then too. Hopefully the folks in Energy and Commerce will let this one die a quiet death too.
Wow... Those are Ugly. Not just kinda Ugly, but FUGLY!
Isn't their operating system called Windows? Wouldn't you think that would induce them to features Windows in their product, not ginormous Toolbars that appear to serve no real purpose except to inform you what kind of information you're looking at?
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I've been using this book for about 3 months, and I'm no Newbie to PHP programming but it's got some invaluable stuff in there.
I remember reading an article either on SlashDot or in one of my Comp-Sci classes about 4 years ago on this. The article also brought up an interesting point about "reconfigurable" computers, they're extrememly fault tolerant. IIRC the person being interviewed for the article demonstrated this by firing a.38 pistol through one of the demo-model's processing units, and watching it still chug along very hapily as the computer reconfigured itself to not use the damaged parts.
It makes more sense that things like derivations, integration, and cos/sine law should be taught sooner
This was exactly my thought when we started doing calculus, and I finally understood where all of the equations we had been taught by rote 3 years earlier in Physics had come from. Algebra should be taught Freshman year, and followed by a joint Physics/Calculus curriculum Sophomore year.
Interestingly enough, he's cancelled his suits against people in california where anti-frivilous lawsuit penalties are in place, and he'd end up paying their legal fees.
ADSL, and asymetric cable modems, *by design* turn a generic internet connection into a consumer-only connection. Don't let the marketing fool you- This isn't a feature. Your ability to publish information is strongly and arbitrarily curtailed.
On the other hand, it's marketing to what people want. The majority of the people who are interested in "Broadband" internet access want really good download speeds and good ping times to their Quake servers. Bandwidth is a commodity, and it costs the Cable or DSL provider, so in order to provide what people want at the minimum cost they created Async Bandwidth. Note too that the 384kbps that you get on either Cable or DSL works out to about 948 Gigabits per month, which is > 90 times the average that web hosting companies allow per month. (HostPro offers 10Gbit/Month on their midsize package, Virtualis offers 12Gbit/Month on their midsize, etc..)
Cable or DSL should be plenty of bandwidth for most small to average websites. If you're serving streaming video or porn, there might be some bandwidth issues, otherwise you're fine.
I've got 1 & 3 with my cable provider (AT&T/RoadRunner) Admittedly, the 384kbps isn't garaunteed by contract or anything, but if I were to try and fill the pipe, I'd average that.
And of course I get 1.5mbps download most of the time, for only $40 a month.
Has anyone read DMCA Section 1201(f)? I just recently noticed it, and it appears to claim that it is legal to reverse-engineer software products that you have legaly obtained a copy of, for the use of interoperability.
What this means to Linux DVD Players: If someone is willing to find the CSS decryption routine in PowerDVD, we can link it as a.so, and legally distribute a method to interoperate PowerDVD and LiViD. (Or your favorit Linux DVD player)
It will probably work similar to DVD's, where only licenced players will be able to read these CD's, and Licenced players will be policed so that they cannot do a direct CD to CD copy, and the industry will prosecute in court any company which builds a CD to CD copy-capable drive.
The problem with introducing this so late in the game with CD's though, is that there will still be a lot of old CD-RW drives and CD ROM drives on the market that can bypass the whole scheme.
My guess is that a lot of people write already existing programs from the ground up and release them because the previously existing programs don't have quite the functionality they are looking for, and adding the functionality to the exisiting programs would be more work than a fresh project.
Of course, in the wild, one of them always rises above the others, and will be extended to envelop the functionality of the others...
Another reason for the massive number of message boards and web-mail interfaces in the public domain, is because they are easy to write. They make a good "first time" project, becuase they are simple enough to allow one programmer to see them through from beginning to end. It's not so much a competition, as a tutorial.
On the other hand, we have no constitutionally garaunteed right to not be offended. We do have a constitutionally garaunteed right to publish whatever we wish.
While I personally despise people who yell insults at people of different races, They have that right. If their actions are limited to talking, I can't say that I am willing to give up my free speech in order to limit theirs.
Now, the moment that they move beyond speaking to something destructive they should be thrown into prison so fast their extremeties freeze from wind chill.
The problem here is that the school board is deeming this girl's thoughts to be destructive. Once you cross that line, deeming a mere thought to be destructive, who tells you when to stop?
The patent bureau of the United States actually inhibits a free market economy. In a true free market economy, anyone can reverse engineer any process, and use it to whatever ends they wish, but the one who does it most efficiently ends up with the ability to make the most profit.
Unfortunately, government intervention via the patent process interferes with this and favors those with the itchiest trigger finger rather than those with the best and most efficient production solutions.
In other words, rather than fostering capitalism, the patent office is actually a mechanism of socialism, and undermines the American Ideal in a way that the Open Source movement could never hope to touch:)
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System (N.A.C.H.O.S.) was our OS training ground at USC. From the memory that I haven't repressed, it was a big steaming pile of stuff distributed by Berkely as a learning OS.
Did anyone else notice that the JetDirect box was actually to translate an SMB printing connection into an LPD printing connection to allow simple Windows printing on printers which only had LPD support?
Admittedly, it is nice to have all your printing going into the same queue, so that Unix Print jobs don't ignore prioritization, but that's not what their JetDirect box seemed to be intended for. It looks like more of a small business plug and play SMB->LPD translator.
Adam (Who uses SaMBa printing to an NT server and is quite happy with it)
The idea of wearing Trench Coats and wasting your classmates with guns and bombs is not something new to the 90's. Does anyone remember the movie "Heathers"? 1987 I think... Long before the "Trenchcoat Mafia". There's more connection between that movie and Littleton than with "The Matrix" but look which movie caught the blame. As to "living in the hood" I am a White Boy (tm) living in South Central Los Angeles... I don't see Gangsta rap promoting actual violence. The main cause of violence that I see is that peolple don't have a sense of community anymore. We're all too paranoid that our next door neighbors are going to shoot us, so we sequester ourselves away in our little houses and isolate ourselves from the world. I'm pretty good friends with a lot of my neighbors, and that really helps tear down the racial barriers that the liberals and conservatives are busy rebuilding.
We did have kids going on shoot-em-ups before 1980, but the media ignored them... Hell, the most common crime in 1899 was drive by shootings (on horse of course) The level of teenage violence, and violence overall has decreased in the last 50 years, and still everyone is screaming that our world is falling apart at the seams.
I don't know about the rest of you all, but I actually have bought more CD's since I started collecting MP3's. Generally it goes that I'll hear one or two good songs, off the CD, and then decide that I want to buy the album to support the artist.
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Beyond that, he also introduced a similar bill back in 2007 that died in committee then too. Hopefully the folks in Energy and Commerce will let this one die a quiet death too.
Four Seconds, not minutes. Assuming they're running 24 hours a day (which a lot of video places do) that's just short of 4 days.
Wow... Those are Ugly. Not just kinda Ugly, but FUGLY!
Isn't their operating system called Windows? Wouldn't you think that would induce them to features Windows in their product, not ginormous Toolbars that appear to serve no real purpose except to inform you what kind of information you're looking at?
I've been using this book for about 3 months, and I'm no Newbie to PHP programming but it's got some invaluable stuff in there.
I remember reading an article either on SlashDot or in one of my Comp-Sci classes about 4 years ago on this. The article also brought up an interesting point about "reconfigurable" computers, they're extrememly fault tolerant. IIRC the person being interviewed for the article demonstrated this by firing a .38 pistol through one of the demo-model's processing units, and watching it still chug along very hapily as the computer reconfigured itself to not use the damaged parts.
Also kind of like a "Wiki Web".... You can arbitrarily link any object to any other object, just by referencing them using a simple syntax.
It makes more sense that things like derivations, integration, and cos/sine law should be taught sooner
This was exactly my thought when we started doing calculus, and I finally understood where all of the equations we had been taught by rote 3 years earlier in Physics had come from. Algebra should be taught Freshman year, and followed by a joint Physics/Calculus curriculum Sophomore year.
Interestingly enough, he's cancelled his suits against people in california where anti-frivilous lawsuit penalties are in place, and he'd end up paying their legal fees.
ADSL, and asymetric cable modems, *by design* turn a generic internet connection into a consumer-only connection. Don't let the marketing fool you- This isn't a feature. Your ability to publish information is strongly and arbitrarily curtailed.
On the other hand, it's marketing to what people want. The majority of the people who are interested in "Broadband" internet access want really good download speeds and good ping times to their Quake servers. Bandwidth is a commodity, and it costs the Cable or DSL provider, so in order to provide what people want at the minimum cost they created Async Bandwidth. Note too that the 384kbps that you get on either Cable or DSL works out to about 948 Gigabits per month, which is > 90 times the average that web hosting companies allow per month. (HostPro offers 10Gbit/Month on their midsize package, Virtualis offers 12Gbit/Month on their midsize, etc..)
Cable or DSL should be plenty of bandwidth for most small to average websites. If you're serving streaming video or porn, there might be some bandwidth issues, otherwise you're fine.
I've got 1 & 3 with my cable provider (AT&T/RoadRunner) Admittedly, the 384kbps isn't garaunteed by contract or anything, but if I were to try and fill the pipe, I'd average that.
And of course I get 1.5mbps download most of the time, for only $40 a month.
I hardly call it shoving crap down our throats when you have to make the effort to get up and go to the movie theatre and pay $8 for a matinee showing
Admittedly, It just means we're paying for crap, but there's no studio execs with whips and chain gangs forcing us into theatres.
Has anyone read DMCA Section 1201(f)? I just recently noticed it, and it appears to claim that it is legal to reverse-engineer software products that you have legaly obtained a copy of, for the use of interoperability.
What this means to Linux DVD Players: If someone is willing to find the CSS decryption routine in PowerDVD, we can link it as a .so, and legally distribute a method to interoperate PowerDVD and LiViD. (Or your favorit Linux DVD player)
It will probably work similar to DVD's, where only licenced players will be able to read these CD's, and Licenced players will be policed so that they cannot do a direct CD to CD copy, and the industry will prosecute in court any company which builds a CD to CD copy-capable drive.
The problem with introducing this so late in the game with CD's though, is that there will still be a lot of old CD-RW drives and CD ROM drives on the market that can bypass the whole scheme.
I Still wouldn't use it?
My guess is that a lot of people write already existing programs from the ground up and release them because the previously existing programs don't have quite the functionality they are looking for, and adding the functionality to the exisiting programs would be more work than a fresh project.
Of course, in the wild, one of them always rises above the others, and will be extended to envelop the functionality of the others...
Another reason for the massive number of message boards and web-mail interfaces in the public domain, is because they are easy to write. They make a good "first time" project, becuase they are simple enough to allow one programmer to see them through from beginning to end. It's not so much a competition, as a tutorial.
On the other hand, we have no constitutionally garaunteed right to not be offended. We do have a constitutionally garaunteed right to publish whatever we wish.
While I personally despise people who yell insults at people of different races, They have that right. If their actions are limited to talking, I can't say that I am willing to give up my free speech in order to limit theirs.
Now, the moment that they move beyond speaking to something destructive they should be thrown into prison so fast their extremeties freeze from wind chill.
The problem here is that the school board is deeming this girl's thoughts to be destructive. Once you cross that line, deeming a mere thought to be destructive, who tells you when to stop?
The patent bureau of the United States actually inhibits a free market economy. In a true free market economy, anyone can reverse engineer any process, and use it to whatever ends they wish, but the one who does it most efficiently ends up with the ability to make the most profit.
:)
Unfortunately, government intervention via the patent process interferes with this and favors those with the itchiest trigger finger rather than those with the best and most efficient production solutions.
In other words, rather than fostering capitalism, the patent office is actually a mechanism of socialism, and undermines the American Ideal in a way that the Open Source movement could never hope to touch
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System (N.A.C.H.O.S.) was our OS training ground at USC. From the memory that I haven't repressed, it was a big steaming pile of stuff distributed by Berkely as a learning OS.
Not much fun.
Did anyone else notice that the JetDirect box was actually to translate an SMB printing connection into an LPD printing connection to allow simple Windows printing on printers which only had LPD support?
Admittedly, it is nice to have all your printing going into the same queue, so that Unix Print jobs don't ignore prioritization, but that's not what their JetDirect box seemed to be intended for. It looks like more of a small business plug and play SMB->LPD translator.
Adam (Who uses SaMBa printing to an NT server and is quite happy with it)
The idea of wearing Trench Coats and wasting your classmates with guns and bombs is not something new to the 90's. Does anyone remember the movie "Heathers"? 1987 I think... Long before the "Trenchcoat Mafia". There's more connection between that movie and Littleton than with "The Matrix" but look which movie caught the blame.
As to "living in the hood" I am a White Boy (tm) living in South Central Los Angeles... I don't see Gangsta rap promoting actual violence. The main cause of violence that I see is that peolple don't have a sense of community anymore. We're all too paranoid that our next door neighbors are going to shoot us, so we sequester ourselves away in our little houses and isolate ourselves from the world. I'm pretty good friends with a lot of my neighbors, and that really helps tear down the racial barriers that the liberals and conservatives are busy rebuilding.
We did have kids going on shoot-em-ups before 1980, but the media ignored them... Hell, the most common crime in 1899 was drive by shootings (on horse of course) The level of teenage violence, and violence overall has decreased in the last 50 years, and still everyone is screaming that our world is falling apart at the seams.
I don't know about the rest of you all, but I actually have bought more CD's since I started collecting MP3's. Generally it goes that I'll hear one or two good songs, off the CD, and then decide that I want to buy the album to support the artist.