But what does it take to get a working USB port on Gentoo?
Hmmm -- the keyboard and mouse seem to work fine on your system. It's that dratted USB thumbdrive that keeps hosing up, and that's apparently not Gentoo-specific.
So, by my math, she's legal now, right? Hook a fella up!
Yeah, she's legal. She's also 178 cm tall, buff, and about 70 kg of high-molar attitude. You wouldn't survive long enough to make a useful Terrifying Example.
Don't you see...that the best part. Gentoo users will no longer think they are special because they can follow directions and stand a large amount of pain to put together an OS. Now Gentoo can stand on its real merits.
Hmmm -- from the POV of a college-aged daugher, I'm not sure that this would be a Good Thing.
As it is, when DD tells guys that she runs Linux, they're impressed. When she tells them that she runs Gentoo, they're in awe. When she tells them that she did a Stage One install, those who aren't running away in terror fall on their faces and worship her.
As a father, I like it that way: most of them running away in terror, the rest face-down on the ground. I sleep better.
You are aware that the W Bush Administration is in fact restricting access to most of the reports you mentioned, right?
Nope. Perhaps you could give examples? Last I looked the Congressional Record was still available, you can still get the laws, USDA food safety, drug approvals, etc.
The military pointed out that if NOAA didn't do weather forecasts, the DoD would have to hire all of the NOAA forecasters just so that the military wouldn't be left without mission-critical information.
Add to that that other government agencies (both Federal and State) would have to staff up, duplicating the no-doubt-now-classified military work. Bottom line is that shutting down the NOAA forecast role will be a sizable net cost to the US, along with some unknown harm to both the economy and national security.
If the basic idea of this bill is sound, we should consider the benefits of:
Restricting access to economic reports
Restricting access to research results
Restricting access to USDA food safety data
Restricting access to FDA drug approvals
Restricting access to laws, including the tax code
Restricting access to Congressional records, including proposed legislation
I'm sure there are others
The Congressional part especially has a lot of merit, since I'm sure Congress would prefer that we not find out about stuff like this except as duly authorized sources see fit to pass it along.
will be getting the law changed so that they're the only ones who can legally use it.
On the one hand they're trying to convince the United States Supreme Court that the developers of a technology can be sued into oblivion if at any point the technology is mostly used for copyright infringement.
On the other hand, they want to use it themselves. That's going to take some tricky wording.
Anyone remember the Lazarus Long line about how no sane adult wants justice, but it's what we're willing to settle for?
At least in software engineering, speed improvements less than, say, 5x, aren't really that impressive. Does the same hold true in electrical engineering?
No, because unlike software engineering electrical engineering has to do with physics. For instance, the engineering required to crank up PCI-Express from 2.5 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s basically requires a complete reengineering of the whole physical layer circuitry.
It doesn't have to do with the semiconductors so much as the physics of the wires, which really screw up signals at that rate thanks to frequency-dependent loss mechanisms.
That's backwards. The Big Res is split between Arizona and New Mexico. Rather than have part on DST and part on standard time, the Navajos keep all of the res on the same time, For whatever reason they chose New Mexico time, so the Res is the only part of Arizona that does DST.
You probably see where I'm going with this: who in their right mind is actually awake at 5 AM to enjoy the daylight?????
Well, for one I am. It's the only decent time of day to be outside around here. Why, at 0400-0600 (the two hours on either side of sunrise) the temperature sometimes gets down into the 80F range.
Back in the early 60s the flood of Arizona newcomers convinced the Legislature to adopt DST. It lasted one year. As soon as the Legislature reconvened the first thing they did was repeal it.
The trouble is, Grokster is not a sympathetic defendent. The Court have (more or less rightly) noted that the Defendents have build a business model predicated on copyright infringement, and will be inclined to Do Something about it.
Unfortunately, the only tool really before the Court is an overturning of the Betamax doctrine, which was decided with a much more sympathetic defendent.
This is one of the few cases I can think of where the appropriate charge should have been conspiracy. It's a crappy bit of law, but it would actually fit. As it is, I'm afraid that the Defendents may have screwed us all.
Sun and Microsoft go without question, but some of the others are interesting. Oracle, for instance, has declared Linux to be the star of their roadmap going forward.
Perhaps the key is the company most conspicuous by its absense: IBM, who competes with all of them.
Keep in mind that both Philips and Sony produce video processing chips that don't depend on software. Their patents would be hardware patents, but almost certainly drawn broadly enough that a software emulation of the hardware wouldn't escape infringement.
That is, by the way, the back door that got the US into the software patent business: lawyers just drew up claims for Rube Goldberg hardware that did the same thing without reference to software, then claimed the software by the Doctrine of Equivalences.
Since I'm pretty sure that both Sony and Philips have MS Windows licenses, MS gets a free pass on this. Their standard contract terms include a "patent non-assertion" clause which in effect gives MS a 100% unilateral cross-license to any patents which the (non-MS) party might have or ever hope to have.
Sony made a particular point about this shortly after the DOJ scuttlement, when MS told them that the Court required uniform license terms and that meant no more exemptions from the non-assert clause.
At this point, the issue is likely to be boiling down to what (if anything) MS is willing to pay to keep Sony and Philips (and any others) from suing MS' users. Since neither company wants the bad PR from anything like that, they'll settle for peanuts.
One thing that really frustrates me a little bit, and you can say this is partly because of us at Microsoft and hopefully we're getting better here, is that people try to position us as Microsoft versus open source.
Just guessing here, but maybe all of those comments about "communists" from the Chairman of the Board and the CEO might have something to do with this.
They have the same problem that all of the other keep-you-from-watching tools do: they also keep you from programming a recording device to capture the shows you actually want to watch while you're away, etc.
I gave up on "premium" cable TV years ago when I found out that the set-top box that decoded the scrambled channels couldn't be made to work with a programmed VCR.
With all of the other things-you-aren't-allowed-to-do-anymore goodies being loaded on ("broadcast flag," etc.) to TV with the mandated end-of-life for analog TV, the medium is becoming almost totally useless.
I do find I have a lot more time for sunsets, gardens, etc. now though.
I'm hoping that this can't be appealed...if so, it's really good news.
It can be appealed twice more yet: to the Circuit Court sitting en banc and to the United States Supreme Court. The Circuit can decline to hear the case en banc and the Supreme Court can refuse certiorari, but the right of appeal is still there.
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Hmmm -- the keyboard and mouse seem to work fine on your system. It's that dratted USB thumbdrive that keeps hosing up, and that's apparently not Gentoo-specific.
But I'm sure she'll appreciate your version.
I don't know whether to give you points for trying or to just point at you and laugh.
Yes I do -- I need a good laugh right now, and you'll do nicely.
Yeah, she's legal. She's also 178 cm tall, buff, and about 70 kg of high-molar attitude. You wouldn't survive long enough to make a useful Terrifying Example.
Hmmm -- from the POV of a college-aged daugher, I'm not sure that this would be a Good Thing.
As it is, when DD tells guys that she runs Linux, they're impressed. When she tells them that she runs Gentoo, they're in awe. When she tells them that she did a Stage One install, those who aren't running away in terror fall on their faces and worship her.
As a father, I like it that way: most of them running away in terror, the rest face-down on the ground. I sleep better.
It's just a matter of "follow the directions" and you get a working system. Anyone who can't install Gentoo must be afraid to RTFM.
Nope. Perhaps you could give examples? Last I looked the Congressional Record was still available, you can still get the laws, USDA food safety, drug approvals, etc.
However, I'd appreciate being shown otherwise.
Add to that that other government agencies (both Federal and State) would have to staff up, duplicating the no-doubt-now-classified military work. Bottom line is that shutting down the NOAA forecast role will be a sizable net cost to the US, along with some unknown harm to both the economy and national security.
Great move, Senator.
The Congressional part especially has a lot of merit, since I'm sure Congress would prefer that we not find out about stuff like this except as duly authorized sources see fit to pass it along.
On the one hand they're trying to convince the United States Supreme Court that the developers of a technology can be sued into oblivion if at any point the technology is mostly used for copyright infringement.
On the other hand, they want to use it themselves. That's going to take some tricky wording.
Anyone remember the Lazarus Long line about how no sane adult wants justice, but it's what we're willing to settle for?
No, because unlike software engineering electrical engineering has to do with physics. For instance, the engineering required to crank up PCI-Express from 2.5 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s basically requires a complete reengineering of the whole physical layer circuitry.
It doesn't have to do with the semiconductors so much as the physics of the wires, which really screw up signals at that rate thanks to frequency-dependent loss mechanisms.
Thus my observation was, "sometimes gets down into the 80F range."
That's backwards. The Big Res is split between Arizona and New Mexico. Rather than have part on DST and part on standard time, the Navajos keep all of the res on the same time, For whatever reason they chose New Mexico time, so the Res is the only part of Arizona that does DST.
Well, for one I am. It's the only decent time of day to be outside around here. Why, at 0400-0600 (the two hours on either side of sunrise) the temperature sometimes gets down into the 80F range.
Back in the early 60s the flood of Arizona newcomers convinced the Legislature to adopt DST. It lasted one year. As soon as the Legislature reconvened the first thing they did was repeal it.
First off, open-source projects don't need to make money. Secondly, if users are dependent on them, they don't go away.
The "problem" that Bloor describes is either a phantom or self-correcting, whichever way you choose to look at it.
wish to welcome our new CES overlords.
Unfortunately, the only tool really before the Court is an overturning of the Betamax doctrine, which was decided with a much more sympathetic defendent.
This is one of the few cases I can think of where the appropriate charge should have been conspiracy. It's a crappy bit of law, but it would actually fit. As it is, I'm afraid that the Defendents may have screwed us all.
Perhaps the key is the company most conspicuous by its absense: IBM, who competes with all of them.
So, I'm confused. Does this mean that they add features that people don't want?
That is, by the way, the back door that got the US into the software patent business: lawyers just drew up claims for Rube Goldberg hardware that did the same thing without reference to software, then claimed the software by the Doctrine of Equivalences.
Sony made a particular point about this shortly after the DOJ scuttlement, when MS told them that the Court required uniform license terms and that meant no more exemptions from the non-assert clause.
At this point, the issue is likely to be boiling down to what (if anything) MS is willing to pay to keep Sony and Philips (and any others) from suing MS' users. Since neither company wants the bad PR from anything like that, they'll settle for peanuts.
Just guessing here, but maybe all of those comments about "communists" from the Chairman of the Board and the CEO might have something to do with this.
I gave up on "premium" cable TV years ago when I found out that the set-top box that decoded the scrambled channels couldn't be made to work with a programmed VCR.
With all of the other things-you-aren't-allowed-to-do-anymore goodies being loaded on ("broadcast flag," etc.) to TV with the mandated end-of-life for analog TV, the medium is becoming almost totally useless.
I do find I have a lot more time for sunsets, gardens, etc. now though.
Well, as long as they're consistent. Looks like maybe Bill Gates will be doing some hard time for the Burst patent violations, right?
It can be appealed twice more yet: to the Circuit Court sitting en banc and to the United States Supreme Court. The Circuit can decline to hear the case en banc and the Supreme Court can refuse certiorari, but the right of appeal is still there.