"Support for Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of these browsers may experience problems when filing claims."
It doesn't seem that they plan on restricting usage to IE users only, and in fact sounds more like they have the position, "it might work on firefox, but we haven't tested it."
A search on the Supreme Court's site seems to have the latest activity on June 27, 2003:
02-355 SOUTHERN BUILDING CODE V. VEECK, PETER The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
As far as I can tell, this means that they declined to hear the case, leaving the ruling of the lower court (5th Circuit Court of Appeals) stand, which was to rule in favor of Peter Veeck for posting the building code online.
No high school I know makes you read "Ulyesses" either (the book that is well over a thousand pages, that covers a single days events during the Civil War era). That doesn't mean it's not considered "serious literature" (as crappy as I hear it is to read).
What civil war was that? The events in Ulysses take place on June 16, 1904 (apparently chosen because it was the day James Joyce's girlfriend gave him a hand job.)
Seriously, besides GNU, who else favors info over man? I find the system difficult to navigate. For instance, when I was first learning {,ba}sh... damn, the bash info page sucks.
I always hated using info pages until I came across pinfo, a colorized info/man viewer using arrow keys. That phrase is insufficient to describe its utility. It actually makes info pages useful! Debian has it in package repositories and I'd guess that other Linux distributions, perhaps BSDs, etc. package it.
i agree, and believe that thinking for yourself should be a focus as early in life as possible. public schools really should progress beyond training children for the factories of today and providing day care services.
it doesn't seem to me that the public school system has really advanced much in the past century or two, given the animosity occasionally demonstrated towards free thought as well as the strong disciplinarian atmosphere that seems to pervade schools.
in some ways, public education (i mean k-12) seems to have drastically deteriorated, as in an 8th grade final from 1895.
just got my cbos updated (thanks for the link!). one caveat - it says to use xmodem. didn't work for me.
google returned only questions, no answers. so i tried ymodem, which worked.
hopefully this helps at least one minicom and 675 user.
i've read that until the late 1800s, when the supreme court made a ruling whose details escape me, corporations were obligated to serve the public interest. corporations that did not live up to their contract with the public had their charters revoked by the federal government; this happened regularly. i believe that since that ruling virtually no corporations have lost their charter, though a few trusts have been broken up.
the register article doesn't actually say that he asked for wallmart*. he is "demanding that Wal-Mart hand over to him the URLs wallmartcanadasucks.net, wallmartcanadasucks.org and wallmartcanadasucks.ca.
some thoughts i had were to have electronic voting machines that printed the names of the candidates you selected as well as some machine readable code. this could potentially allow mailin ballots as well, via a registration notice and key to download a program which asks and verifies your ballot choices, creating the same ballot that would be generated at the polling stations.
this would allow electronic tabulation as well as assisting in private (australian) ballots and recounts.
thats exactly what i did. i had updated fri night and the matrox drivers were gone, x wouldn't start due to 'no valid configured device' or something similar. i searched through the available *xfree*4* packages and found and installed xserver-xfree86. which worked perfectly:)
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proof that it's good to venture beyond the O'Reilly section of the store, at least the few feet to the Current Science area.
few feet? most bookstores i know of don't have computing topics near science topics.
A bookstore based on the dewey decimal system, incidentally, would likely have them far apart (computing - hmm, the Q hierarchy sounds like it belongs in st:tng:)
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Seriously though, it's been frozen since the middle of January. Isn't it time to release it already? What's the holdup? Debian developers please reply!
I'm not a debian developer(though have been thinking about it), but this page has information about release-critical bugs (i assume in potato/frozen), currently at 83.
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A few years ago, certain corporate interests tried to get a law passed that effectively gave them copyright on their databases. the fact that you own your personal information notwithstanding, did that law get passed? (i certainly hope it didn't!)
I would also love to see this feature added. My (minimal) usage of beos r4.5 really impressed me with their implementation of multiple desktops with varying resolutions.
its interesting to me to observe the lengths of time it takes the (market|public) to allow technology to saturate it. R. Buckminster Fuller estimated that it took 60-80 years (i forget exact numbers) for new technologies in the construction field to reach 90% market saturation. linux is, to me, one example of the much more rapid acceptance times that software demonstrates. i wonder, is it generally a fixed rate that is obtained for technology advancements in various disciplines? it seems that the rate of acquisition of information is speeding up (terence mckenna's timewave zero theory, others) - a concept that has really been illustrated to me by the explosive growth of information exchange on the internet, or even watching slashdot grow over the past few years. is it inevitable, since we now have a global information network, that new technologies and methods will always reach market acceptance, assuming that they are useful? how much does advertising influence market perception and neophilia? just some thoughts
I was re-reading the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which was made law a year ago (october 1998). One of its provisions is that defeating copy protection (unless you're a specifically exempt institution or can demonstrate a valid need to make backups) will be illegal two years to the day after the passage of the act, which makes it effective in october 2000. any comments on this, preferably from someone who understands the legal ramifications of this?
I think the sheer number of open source projects might keep the number of developers on any given project low. Another factor might be that someone looking to participate in an open source project could conceivably be overwhelmed by that number, and end up selecting more glamorous projects. Not to say that fetchmail isn't a great program, but when its already stable and full-featured, what need does it have of geometric growth of developers?
There is of course, Mozilla and Xul. Also, I think AbiWord uses XML, or an XML subset, for it's (future?) configuration file. AbiWord, according to the FAQ, uses XML as its native file format: Why does AbiWord use XML as its native file format? Because we like XML. Seriously, it seemed silly to invent yet another file format, when XML provides a very nice syntactic structure for our use. There are a variety of other options that did not make as much sense for our purposes.
I think that this purchase will lead to a lot more AD&D branded toys and merchandise, and perhaps lesser contribution to the art of role playing. I suppose that the same could have been said about wotc buying tsr to a lesser degree.
btw, i feel that the whole.com hierarchy should be either restructured, or else priority given to the owner if its not being used to confuse with a trademark in the same industry or specialization.
the idea of copyright, as mentioned in the us constitution, is supposed to stimulate creativity: Section 8, Clause 8 - To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
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From the federal register link in the /. article:
"Support for Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of these browsers may experience problems when filing claims."
It doesn't seem that they plan on restricting usage to IE users only, and in fact sounds more like they have the position, "it might work on firefox, but we haven't tested it."
No, Im not kidding.
There _was_ someone who tried to fight this by posting the laws online, but I am unsure what happened.
I'm pretty sure you're talking about building codes being copyrighted even after enacted into law. Some links regarding this:
construction works article
slashdot article
A search on the Supreme Court's site seems to have the latest activity on June 27, 2003:
02-355 SOUTHERN BUILDING CODE V. VEECK, PETER The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
As far as I can tell, this means that they declined to hear the case, leaving the ruling of the lower court (5th Circuit Court of Appeals) stand, which was to rule in favor of Peter Veeck for posting the building code online.
No high school I know makes you read "Ulyesses" either (the book that is well over a thousand pages, that covers a single days events during the Civil War era). That doesn't mean it's not considered "serious literature" (as crappy as I hear it is to read).
What civil war was that? The events in Ulysses take place on June 16, 1904 (apparently chosen because it was the day James Joyce's girlfriend gave him a hand job.)
I always hated using info pages until I came across pinfo, a colorized info/man viewer using arrow keys. That phrase is insufficient to describe its utility. It actually makes info pages useful! Debian has it in package repositories and I'd guess that other Linux distributions, perhaps BSDs, etc. package it.
i agree, and believe that thinking for yourself should be a focus as early in life as possible. public schools really should progress beyond training children for the factories of today and providing day care services.
it doesn't seem to me that the public school system has really advanced much in the past century or two, given the animosity occasionally demonstrated towards free thought as well as the strong disciplinarian atmosphere that seems to pervade schools.
in some ways, public education (i mean k-12) seems to have drastically deteriorated, as in an 8th grade final from 1895.
just got my cbos updated (thanks for the link!). one caveat - it says to use xmodem. didn't work for me. google returned only questions, no answers. so i tried ymodem, which worked. hopefully this helps at least one minicom and 675 user.
i've read that until the late 1800s, when the supreme court made a ruling whose details escape me, corporations were obligated to serve the public interest. corporations that did not live up to their contract with the public had their charters revoked by the federal government; this happened regularly. i believe that since that ruling virtually no corporations have lost their charter, though a few trusts have been broken up.
the register article doesn't actually say that he asked for wallmart*. he is "demanding that Wal-Mart hand over to him the URLs wallmartcanadasucks.net, wallmartcanadasucks.org and wallmartcanadasucks.ca.
some thoughts i had were to have electronic voting machines that printed the names of the candidates you selected as well as some machine readable code. this could potentially allow mailin ballots as well, via a registration notice and key to download a program which asks and verifies your ballot choices, creating the same ballot that would be generated at the polling stations.
this would allow electronic tabulation as well as assisting in private (australian) ballots and recounts.
thats exactly what i did. i had updated fri night and the matrox drivers were gone, x wouldn't start due to 'no valid configured device' or something similar. i searched through the available *xfree*4* packages and found and installed xserver-xfree86. which worked perfectly :)
few feet? most bookstores i know of don't have computing topics near science topics.
A bookstore based on the dewey decimal system, incidentally, would likely have them far apart (computing - hmm, the Q hierarchy sounds like it belongs in st:tng :)
I'm not a debian developer(though have been thinking about it), but this page has information about release-critical bugs (i assume in potato/frozen), currently at 83.
A few years ago, certain corporate interests tried to get a law passed that effectively gave them copyright on their databases. the fact that you own your personal information notwithstanding, did that law get passed? (i certainly hope it didn't!)
I would also love to see this feature added. My (minimal) usage of beos r4.5 really impressed me with their implementation of multiple desktops with varying resolutions.
its interesting to me to observe the lengths of time it takes the (market|public) to allow technology to saturate it. R. Buckminster Fuller estimated that it took 60-80 years (i forget exact numbers) for new technologies in the construction field to reach 90% market saturation. linux is, to me, one example of the much more rapid acceptance times that software demonstrates.
i wonder, is it generally a fixed rate that is obtained for technology advancements in various disciplines? it seems that the rate of acquisition of information is speeding up (terence mckenna's timewave zero theory, others) - a concept that has really been illustrated to me by the explosive growth of information exchange on the internet, or even watching slashdot grow over the past few years. is it inevitable, since we now have a global information network, that new technologies and methods will always reach market acceptance, assuming that they are useful? how much does advertising influence market perception and neophilia?
just some thoughts
I was re-reading the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which was made law a year ago (october 1998). One of its provisions is that defeating copy protection (unless you're a specifically exempt institution or can demonstrate a valid need to make backups) will be illegal two years to the day after the passage of the act, which makes it effective in october 2000. any comments on this, preferably from someone who understands the legal ramifications of this?
I think the sheer number of open source projects might keep the number of developers on any given project low. Another factor might be that someone looking to participate in an open source project could conceivably be overwhelmed by that number, and end up selecting more glamorous projects. Not to say that fetchmail isn't a great program, but when its already stable and full-featured, what need does it have of geometric growth of developers?
There is of course, Mozilla and Xul. Also, I think AbiWord uses XML,
or an XML subset, for it's (future?) configuration file.
AbiWord, according to the FAQ, uses XML as its native file format:
Why does AbiWord use XML as its native file format?
Because we like XML. Seriously, it seemed silly to invent yet another
file format, when XML provides a very nice syntactic structure for our
use. There are a variety of other options that did not make as much
sense for our purposes.
I think that this purchase will lead to a lot more AD&D branded toys and merchandise, and perhaps lesser contribution to the art of role playing.
.com hierarchy should be either restructured, or else priority given to the owner if its not being used to confuse with a trademark in the same industry or specialization.
I suppose that the same could have been said about wotc buying tsr to a lesser degree.
btw, i feel that the whole
In January, Bowie was said to support the mp3 format as mentioned in this Slashdot article from january
either kernel docs or the ppp howto said 2 or 3 years ago that support for /dev/cuaX was being phased out, and that you should use /dev/ttySX instead.
the idea of copyright, as mentioned in the us constitution, is supposed to stimulate creativity:
Section 8, Clause 8 - To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.