I'm probably biased, since I'm a biologist who learned computers (or really a geek who's been playing with computers since the Apple II and the C64 and just happened to get a degree in biochemistry along the way), but I would say that it's the IT guys who have the hardest time adopting the biological point of view, rather than the other way around. We seem to end up with a lot of software that solves a non-existent biological problem, but does a great job of demonstrating some great algorithm that gets the computer scientists all boned up. I live in hope...
I think you're biased, but probably right.:) In some sense, it's easier for the biologists because of tools like BLAST and Genscan. They can cobble together a solution based upon already reasonably good tools. And using test runs on small data sets, they can even come up with a good idea of whether their ideas are computationally feasible. (Even so, I've seen one of our biologists propose a computation that would take 6 months on 32 CPUs...)
Maybe it's just where I work and everyone's an asshole (or I'm an asshole), but trying to get the researchers and the computer guys to agree on anything is a fucking nightmare.
Maybe your company is the norm, but in the bioinformatics company I work for, the biologists learn computer skills and the computational researchers learn biology. In order to be successful in the field now (and in the future), you need a mix of computationally-minded biologists and biologically-minded computationalists.
Personally, I don't see a problem. If I make a mod, and then they take it, put it on CD, and sell it without my permission, then hey, that's fucking cool, dude, because hey, I got fucking published! I'd love that. Talk about bragging rights. All I'd ask is that they let me know beforehand, so I could brag to my friends about it.
I do agree that the EULA should be changed. It's only fair to ask people what you can do with their mods. But calling a right given to them by the EULA 'stealing' is a whole other matter.
The problem is that not only can they take it, put it on CD, and sell it without your permission, but they can also prohibit you from further distributing it! So -- unlike warez and Napster/Gnutella/Morpheus/etc where new copies are made, but the original copies remain -- it really is like stealing your work: they have it and can make money from it, and you no longer have it.
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What about Andy Warhool's Campbell's Soup?
Is that theft of the trademarked Campbells soup can design, or is it art?
I don't know if it's trademark infringement, but it sure as hell isn't art.
That's amazing. I thought the episode last night was very well written, and hilarious. One of the best this season, to be sure.
Maybe it was one of the best this season, but you have to admit the whole "you're not in any kind of physical pain... the only kind of pain men understand" joke was really clunky and lame... as was the Marge-reads-Homer's mind bit... Neither of those would've happened in episodes past...
Exactly, the anti-trust laws are in place to protect the users/consumers, not reward MS competition.
I don't know where this idea originated, but it's just simply wrong. The goal of the Sherman Act -- according to Sen. Sherman -- was to protect "industrial liberty".
I recently started using Mozilla 0.9.9 rather than IE for web browsing. I haven't noticed a big difference in the way that I use the web or view web sites
Then you need to enable mouse gestures and tabbed browsing. Both of those features (in Galeon, but available for Mozilla and Opera (though they didn't get tabbed browsing quite right)) changed dramatically the way I read web pages. I quickly got addicted to both of them and it's painful for me to use anything else now...
I think it's interersting that paypal both created (and jumped on) a new marketplace: easy, convenient, secure online funds transfers _for_the_little_guy_. Thanks to Paypal, instead of paying 2-3% to Visa/MC (Amex is the worst: it used to be 7% surcharge) and getting a credit card scanner, anyone could accept credit cards. But then they blew it. Poor security, aweful customer service...
Not to mention the fact that they no longer allow you to accept credit card payments without a fee... you now have to pay 2-3% (and have a "preferred" membership) in order to accept a payment which comes from a credit card.
Ummm... you must not have read the parent to my post. The poster I replied to said that @Home had become AT&T BI, which isn't true. His internet provider (apparently) changed from AT&T@Home to AT&T BI, but that's not the same thing as @Home becoming AT&T BI. @Home was, is, and will be (for the rest of its short life) a separate company (unless it gets bought out...).
As for Comcast and AT&T BI merging... that hasn't happened yet, and it won't happen before Feb. 28th. So as I said, nothing has changed (yet) as far as Comcast@Home customers are concerned.
According to the press release on Comcast, AT&T stockholders will receive 0.34 share of Comcast for each share of AT&T they own, which is currently worth about $13.07. AT&T stock is currently selling for about $16-17. Unless there's some radical realignment in stock prices (e.g. Comcast getting hit because of the debt they're acquiring along with the assets), that means there's either some major synergy going on or else the market thinks that the rest of AT&T is worth about $4:-) Hope it's the former...
Actually, it's probably the first thing you mentioned: CMCSK will probably get hit hard tomorrow because of the debt they're taking on... conversely, shares of AOL should gap up at the open, since they're not buying AT&T BI. Such is the strange world of the short-term voting machine known as the stock market...
Sony wanted to prevent porn studios from releasing their material on BETA. The licencing terms of Beta technology had this stipulation.. no non Sony-sanctionned content, as opposed to the far more openminded JVS who developed VHS (I think).
In the case of VHS and Beta, since pron was only available on VHS, and the major purchasers (at least back then) of VCRs and Porn was roughly the same demographic (salary earning male?), VHS permetated US homes far faster than Sony ever could have predicted.
So when did Sony relinquish control over the format? I know for a fact that there was pr0n available in Beta format in 1986... was the format war already over at that point, or was it a case of "too little, too late" on Sony's part?
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Actually, I think the appropriate command would be:
As for why I released them under that license, I respond: why not? Those recordings were done many years ago. I will never make any money off of them, nor do I really need or want to. I didn't make the music with the intent of making money... I made it because I wanted to. I learned long ago that the kind of music that I wanted to create wouldn't be the kind of music that would make me rich... or even make me enough money to live off of.
If someone else can get some enjoyment out of them, then that's great... if not, then oh well... But they're definitely not going to do any anyone any good just sitting on cassette tapes in my closet.
Been doing that since Slack 3.5. Doesn't help a bit.... Also, what WM are you running?
I should ask you the same question... with GNOME + E, the performance increase was obvious. With GNOME + Sawfish, it was less clear, but still noticable. Probably with BlackBox or IceWM it wouldn't be noticable at all.
Yea. On the desktop, the Windows GUI is a lot more responsive.
So renice X to -10 (standard in Debian). My home box (a PII 400) is way more responsive than my W2000 box at work (an Athlon 1K). Both boxes have 256 MB RAM.
Now everybody wins. MS is happy because it gets $30 from me
No, Microsoft is not happy, which is why you haven't and you never will see such a version of Windows. They aren't happy for (at least) two reasons:
You're going to buy Windows anyway... why should they sell you what you want for $30 when they can sell you that + a bunch of crap you don't want for $200?
Why should they give away a chance to get their software on your PC? Every PC that ships with media player is another PC they can claim is part of their "installed base". This they can then use to get companies to stream in their format, as opposed to Real Audio/Video.
So keep dreaming... such a thing will never happen.
The headline clearly reads, "Expert hacks Hotmail in 1 line of code". Then in the second sentence of the first paragraph, "It took just three lines of code for Grossman to breach Hotmail filters..."
And the line after that reads:
The second time it took just one line.
Well, at least you tried to read the article... that's more than most of the Slashbots.
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I think you're biased, but probably right. :) In some sense, it's easier for the biologists because of tools like BLAST and Genscan. They can cobble together a solution based upon already reasonably good tools. And using test runs on small data sets, they can even come up with a good idea of whether their ideas are computationally feasible. (Even so, I've seen one of our biologists propose a computation that would take 6 months on 32 CPUs...)
Maybe your company is the norm, but in the bioinformatics company I work for, the biologists learn computer skills and the computational researchers learn biology. In order to be successful in the field now (and in the future), you need a mix of computationally-minded biologists and biologically-minded computationalists.
I do agree that the EULA should be changed. It's only fair to ask people what you can do with their mods. But calling a right given to them by the EULA 'stealing' is a whole other matter.
The problem is that not only can they take it, put it on CD, and sell it without your permission, but they can also prohibit you from further distributing it! So -- unlike warez and Napster/Gnutella/Morpheus/etc where new copies are made, but the original copies remain -- it really is like stealing your work: they have it and can make money from it, and you no longer have it.
I don't know if it's trademark infringement, but it sure as hell isn't art.
Must be something specific to your setup, because I just finished the whole thing with Galeon 1.2.1 (based upon RC1).
Just for the record, it suggested for me to live in Boise, Idaho. (Which really seems pretty reasonable to me...)
Maybe it was one of the best this season, but you have to admit the whole "you're not in any kind of physical pain... the only kind of pain men understand" joke was really clunky and lame... as was the Marge-reads-Homer's mind bit... Neither of those would've happened in episodes past...
That's right... that's the whole point anti-trust law...
I don't know where this idea originated, but it's just simply wrong. The goal of the Sherman Act -- according to Sen. Sherman -- was to protect "industrial liberty".
how many tech IPOs have there been since the tech bubble popped in Apr. 2000? Not many...
Then you need to enable mouse gestures and tabbed browsing. Both of those features (in Galeon, but available for Mozilla and Opera (though they didn't get tabbed browsing quite right)) changed dramatically the way I read web pages. I quickly got addicted to both of them and it's painful for me to use anything else now...
Why would you expect that? Recall that Windows Update got infected with Code Red, even though a security fix was available a month earlier...
What do you mean maintain? That would imply that Slashdot stories actually had some credibility...
Not to mention the fact that they no longer allow you to accept credit card payments without a fee... you now have to pay 2-3% (and have a "preferred" membership) in order to accept a payment which comes from a credit card.
You mean all that innocent people have to worry about is interrogation, testing, and harrassment? Well that makes it all okay then!
As for Comcast and AT&T BI merging... that hasn't happened yet, and it won't happen before Feb. 28th. So as I said, nothing has changed (yet) as far as Comcast@Home customers are concerned.
Actually, it's probably the first thing you mentioned: CMCSK will probably get hit hard tomorrow because of the debt they're taking on... conversely, shares of AOL should gap up at the open, since they're not buying AT&T BI. Such is the strange world of the short-term voting machine known as the stock market...
Maybe for you, but not for Cox@Home or Comcast@Home (or Rogers@Home) customers. We still have @Home service until sometime before Feb. 28th...
In the case of VHS and Beta, since pron was only available on VHS, and the major purchasers (at least back then) of VCRs and Porn was roughly the same demographic (salary earning male?), VHS permetated US homes far faster than Sony ever could have predicted.
So when did Sony relinquish control over the format? I know for a fact that there was pr0n available in Beta format in 1986... was the format war already over at that point, or was it a case of "too little, too late" on Sony's part?
ps -C /bin/laden | grep -v PID | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9
As for why I released them under that license, I respond: why not? Those recordings were done many years ago. I will never make any money off of them, nor do I really need or want to. I didn't make the music with the intent of making money... I made it because I wanted to. I learned long ago that the kind of music that I wanted to create wouldn't be the kind of music that would make me rich... or even make me enough money to live off of.
If someone else can get some enjoyment out of them, then that's great... if not, then oh well... But they're definitely not going to do any anyone any good just sitting on cassette tapes in my closet.
I should ask you the same question... with GNOME + E, the performance increase was obvious. With GNOME + Sawfish, it was less clear, but still noticable. Probably with BlackBox or IceWM it wouldn't be noticable at all.
So renice X to -10 (standard in Debian). My home box (a PII 400) is way more responsive than my W2000 box at work (an Athlon 1K). Both boxes have 256 MB RAM.
No, Microsoft is not happy, which is why you haven't and you never will see such a version of Windows. They aren't happy for (at least) two reasons:
- You're going to buy Windows anyway... why should they sell you what you want for $30 when they can sell you that + a bunch of crap you don't want for $200?
- Why should they give away a chance to get their software on your PC? Every PC that ships with media player is another PC they can claim is part of their "installed base". This they can then use to get companies to stream in their format, as opposed to Real Audio/Video.
So keep dreaming... such a thing will never happen.And the line after that reads:
Well, at least you tried to read the article... that's more than most of the Slashbots.
Not yet, but give it a few years.
Pathetic.