Those universities' decisions not to block napster had had a lot to do with protecting online freedom, but it might also have something to do with those 80 gig untra scsi2's that the Deans of some of those universities just bought. As well as the extra data lines into their offices.:p
One of the reasons that i decided to use Linux as my primary OS was when I started to research how much it would cost me to get some decent software. The corporate powers have really gotten out of hand in how much that they charge for software. Just ask anybody who wants to get a copy of MSOffice. (Go S tarOffice!) Also of concern is the price of fun software such as Adobe Photoshop, or animatek's worldbuilder.
What is the software industry trying to pull? Sure there are many people out there who have the money to buy this stuff, but how many times would sales (and therefore profits) increase if you could get cool stuff like that for only about US$100?
What we must consider is the full impact that this judgement could have on the whole world. How many people out their have at least one mp3 of their favorite artist? Will they be able to make a judgment that would make so many people thieves, who are ordinarily law abiding citizens?
Second, how long will it take to get rid of all the programs on the internet that enable people to rip copies of cd's?
One important point i would like to bring out involves the amount of money that the RIAA actuallyloses from people ripping cds. from ripping cds. Most people who spend lots of money on cds do not have rippers or mp3 players, and many do not even have computers.
The only thing that the RIAA is upset about is the fact that they can't completely control every aspect of the music industry. If they really wanted to make some money they could form a company to make and sell portable mp3 players and mp3 ready cd players. That would more than make up for the insignificant percieved losses that come from the proliferation of mp3s.
Since everyone is in the mood to sue of stupid, lame, idiotic stuff then why isn't amazon suing musicians friend? if you go to the sites you will see what i mean.
The whole point of all of this is to prove that none of these lawsuites that are going around over patent infringement have anything to do with the design of products or copyrights.
The only reason Macromedia is being sued is because they make graphical design programs, as does Adobe. Adobe is only trying to hurt one of their biggest competitors, and if they keep them from using their precious widgets then that is just a bonus.
Musicians Friend has remained untouched because they sell musical instruments and do not represent a significant threat to amazon's book sales, in fact amazon sells far more music books than musicians friend.
One more example of this practice of hurting your competitors with stupid lawsuites is that between Barnes and Noble and amazon a while back. (Read the Slashdot story here.) The only reason amazon started that lawsuite is because B&N is their biggest competitor and once again, if they could keep B&N from using their precious 1-click crap then they were all the more happy.
When will the Courts handling these cases wake up and smell the mud?
We all know how many bugs that Linux products have. But what I noticed was did Freddy Boy even bother to mention where Linux gets it's software, or who makes it? Or even how the GPL works? NOOOOoooooo!
Also of note would be to compare the time it takes for a Linux related bug to get fixed and the time it takes for Microsoft to come out with a new service pack.
My handwriting is terrible, and no recognition program around now, no matter how good it is, could decode it because it sort of has a randomization algorithm to it so usually i end up doing something noticably different when writing the same thing twice.
Particle physics is really simple once you can get past the part where everything is made of smaller pieces. If you want to read something that completely blows the Standard Model out of the water, then you should read the book Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku It is about theoretical physics and talks about really cool stuff like higher dimensions wormholes, and relativity.
If you just want to stick to particle physics then you can check out CERN
I'm not sure about where you are, but in Oregon it is illegal to have any sort of headset on while you are driving so be careful of doing that. At any other time i dont see why not.
Although putting the cell phone on your belt of hip pocket might give you colon or prostate cancer or make you impotent.
I wonder what yould happen if i went to alt.morons.who.believe.everything and post a message that says that police radar guns cause cancer, and that airport metal detectors cause hardening of the ateries.
There have been some interesting scifi shows that included nanites, and i feel that in light of this article, that the events that occured in those shows should not be dismissed as just fantasy.
There was an episode of Star Trek in which nanites got loose and started eating the circut pathways in the ship to get energy.
There was also an interesting Outer Limits that portrayed a man who injected himself with medical nanites. They cured his cancer, fixed his bad vision and he could run indefinitly while hardly getting out of breath and heal serious injuries in a matter of minutes/seconds.
Then when the doctor started to test the capabilites of the guy, the nanites responded in kind. When one day they did some tests to see how long he could hold his breath, the next day he had grown gills. They also had figured out how to override the kill switch command that the doctor sent them. After a day of poking and prodding, the next day he had grown another set of ribs around his abdomen. One day he grew another set of eyes on the back of his head. Near the end he had also grown a network of weird looking stuff all over his skin. It turned out that they were a protective measure, and were the same type of stinging mechanisms that is found of jellyfish.
All of this serves to prove how dangerous this technology can be if it is not used responsibly it could become more dangerous than anything that our imaginations can concieve...
Here is the best way to make fun of teachers and prove your hatred and their stupidity with impunity. Simply write something fictitious that includes attributes that are obviously those of the teacher/coworker, but include no names, or even false names. If anybody really wants an example, mail me, I still might have one I made about the sysadmins here at eagle point high school. Its pretty good.
Ok, so they were trying to try prove that communism was a scourge on the face of the planet and that the evil soviet empire would take over the world. Under communism everything would suck and then it would be too late for anything.
So, to try to keep the world from going over to communism, we destroy something that is pretty vital to the earth. It all boils to down to a one sentence: join us or die!
I'm sure that if the LOCKSS system works out well the librarians and archivists will still complain.
They are just the type who will complain about anything. I mean, they get to sit all day and stare at shelves of smelly old books, and they have nothing better to do than complain.
Personally, I think that if they really want to do something they should all get themselves some really reliable laser printer, and get started on making those electronic archives permanent.;D
You must have hard copies because, what about when you are going step by step through a howto or something and you kill your box. I mean, not everyone has multiple boxen in the same room...
This new technology may have interesting effects in geekdom. Imagine: No more going hours without food so that you can meet your coding deadlines. Getting vital sustenance from a patch could be a boon to late night coders the world over.
It seems to me that Microsoft hasnt been alone in their business practices for quite some time. Not only companies like Time Warner/AOL but also companies like Cisco Systems.
Although they produced a large part of the hardware that makes up the internet, they have used their power for evil. Cisco is extremely proprietary with their products. They have made it a practice to forbid any and all companies from creating software for their routers therebye making CiscoIOS the only choice for peoples' router needs.
Another thing that should be addressed is CiscoIOS itself. Cisco has made a practice of buying smaller router producing companies and taking their router software and slapping a CiscoIOS label on it. So we have many many versions of CiscoIOS that are extremely dissimilar.
By doing all of that, Cisco has created a closed loop that relies completely on them being at the center.
Internet technology is one of the fastest growing industries right now and Cisco's business practices are stifling growth. For example, Cisco uses marketing to sell their products, even though they may not always be the best available. (Sound familiar?) Cisco's reliance on marketing is illustrated by the fact that they were one of the last companies on the planet who developed a Terabit router.
All of this adds up to the fact that Cisco is developing a monopoly and they arent even trying to not do it. They are forming their power base even more aggresively than Microsoft.
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There was no Netscape 5.
That is the only possible explanation that I can think of right now. They just skipped over "5" and went straight to 6 in a lame attempt to make it seem that Netscape 6 is more advanced than IE 5. This will probably work with the multitude of stupid people who believe that version numbers are the tellall in the world of computers. (these are probably the same stupid people who think that AOL is that best thing since the transistor.)
Even though I will probably be able to go to quite a few websites that will cause Netscape 6 to crash and burn, it is still a good ploy.
From what i know of theoretical physics, in order to create antigravity devices, scientists must discover how gravity works by fitting it into a unified field theory equation. From the amount of progress they have made so far, it appears that they will have to discover a "graviton" before they can do this.
They can also make antigravity if they discover a substance that scientists call "exotic matter" this is a theoretical substance that supposedly has many strange and useful properties. Unfortunately, this will result in antigravity, but they will still not know anything about gravity.
remebers those old hard drives that were about 150lbs and they had platters that were about 2 feet across? Those thing must have been the most 31337 outdatedstorage devices that ive ever seen.You could throw those things at people and it would be cool.
These sort of disputes should take into account exactly who got the name first and whether they want too use their domain for anything remotely having any thing to do with what their name implies.
There should be some sort of mechanism in place to stop frivolous forms of this from even becoming and issue. for example we all remember the whatshappenin.com/quepasa.com thing.
Here as with many other things, common sense plays a large factor and any body dumb enough to let it get past their secratary should be drawn and quartered and be hung from the ceiling and beaten to a pulp with raw carrots.
If you ask me, anybody who wants to make it look like they manufacture iFruits needs to take a good long look at their goals.
Personally I dont really like the Macintosh computers or their OS, and I especially think they are evil when they put them in that disgusting shell. I dunno, maybe it's just that I once read in the bible that satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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Those universities' decisions not to block napster had had a lot to do with protecting online freedom, but it might also have something to do with those 80 gig untra scsi2's that the Deans of some of those universities just bought. As well as the extra data lines into their offices. :p
When I read this article, I thought of this User Friendly episode.
But seriously, wouldn't it be cool to be racking up frequent flyer miles and frags at the same time?
One of the reasons that i decided to use Linux as my primary OS was when I started to research how much it would cost me to get some decent software. The corporate powers have really gotten out of hand in how much that they charge for software. Just ask anybody who wants to get a copy of MSOffice. (Go S tarOffice!) Also of concern is the price of fun software such as Adobe Photoshop, or animatek's worldbuilder.
What is the software industry trying to pull? Sure there are many people out there who have the money to buy this stuff, but how many times would sales (and therefore profits) increase if you could get cool stuff like that for only about US$100?
What we must consider is the full impact that this judgement could have on the whole world. How many people out their have at least one mp3 of their favorite artist? Will they be able to make a judgment that would make so many people thieves, who are ordinarily law abiding citizens?
Second, how long will it take to get rid of all the programs on the internet that enable people to rip copies of cd's?
One important point i would like to bring out involves the amount of money that the RIAA actually loses from people ripping cds. from ripping cds. Most people who spend lots of money on cds do not have rippers or mp3 players, and many do not even have computers.
The only thing that the RIAA is upset about is the fact that they can't completely control every aspect of the music industry. If they really wanted to make some money they could form a company to make and sell portable mp3 players and mp3 ready cd players. That would more than make up for the insignificant percieved losses that come from the proliferation of mp3s.
Since everyone is in the mood to sue of stupid, lame, idiotic stuff then why isn't amazon suing musicians friend? if you go to the sites you will see what i mean.
The whole point of all of this is to prove that none of these lawsuites that are going around over patent infringement have anything to do with the design of products or copyrights.
The only reason Macromedia is being sued is because they make graphical design programs, as does Adobe. Adobe is only trying to hurt one of their biggest competitors, and if they keep them from using their precious widgets then that is just a bonus.
Musicians Friend has remained untouched because they sell musical instruments and do not represent a significant threat to amazon's book sales, in fact amazon sells far more music books than musicians friend.
One more example of this practice of hurting your competitors with stupid lawsuites is that between Barnes and Noble and amazon a while back. (Read the Slashdot story here.) The only reason amazon started that lawsuite is because B&N is their biggest competitor and once again, if they could keep B&N from using their precious 1-click crap then they were all the more happy.
When will the Courts handling these cases wake up and smell the mud?
We all know how many bugs that Linux products have. But what I noticed was did Freddy Boy even bother to mention where Linux gets it's software, or who makes it? Or even how the GPL works? NOOOOoooooo!
Also of note would be to compare the time it takes for a Linux related bug to get fixed and the time it takes for Microsoft to come out with a new service pack.
My handwriting is terrible, and no recognition program around now, no matter how good it is, could decode it because it sort of has a randomization algorithm to it so usually i end up doing something noticably different when writing the same thing twice.
Particle physics is really simple once you can get past the part where everything is made of smaller pieces. If you want to read something that completely blows the Standard Model out of the water, then you should read the book Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku It is about theoretical physics and talks about really cool stuff like higher dimensions wormholes, and relativity.
If you just want to stick to particle physics then you can check out CERN
I'm not sure about where you are, but in Oregon it is illegal to have any sort of headset on while you are driving so be careful of doing that. At any other time i dont see why not.
Although putting the cell phone on your belt of hip pocket might give you colon or prostate cancer or make you impotent.
I wonder what yould happen if i went to alt.morons.who.believe.everything and post a message that says that police radar guns cause cancer, and that airport metal detectors cause hardening of the ateries.
There have been some interesting scifi shows that included nanites, and i feel that in light of this article, that the events that occured in those shows should not be dismissed as just fantasy.
There was an episode of Star Trek in which nanites got loose and started eating the circut pathways in the ship to get energy.
There was also an interesting Outer Limits that portrayed a man who injected himself with medical nanites. They cured his cancer, fixed his bad vision and he could run indefinitly while hardly getting out of breath and heal serious injuries in a matter of minutes/seconds.
Then when the doctor started to test the capabilites of the guy, the nanites responded in kind. When one day they did some tests to see how long he could hold his breath, the next day he had grown gills. They also had figured out how to override the kill switch command that the doctor sent them. After a day of poking and prodding, the next day he had grown another set of ribs around his abdomen. One day he grew another set of eyes on the back of his head. Near the end he had also grown a network of weird looking stuff all over his skin. It turned out that they were a protective measure, and were the same type of stinging mechanisms that is found of jellyfish.
All of this serves to prove how dangerous this technology can be if it is not used responsibly it could become more dangerous than anything that our imaginations can concieve...
Here is the best way to make fun of teachers and prove your hatred and their stupidity with impunity. Simply write something fictitious that includes attributes that are obviously those of the teacher/coworker, but include no names, or even false names. If anybody really wants an example, mail me, I still might have one I made about the sysadmins here at eagle point high school. Its pretty good.
Ok, so they were trying to try prove that communism was a scourge on the face of the planet and that the evil soviet empire would take over the world. Under communism everything would suck and then it would be too late for anything.
So, to try to keep the world from going over to communism, we destroy something that is pretty vital to the earth. It all boils to down to a one sentence: join us or die!
Mwahahaha.....
I'm sure that if the LOCKSS system works out well the librarians and archivists will still complain.
;D
They are just the type who will complain about anything. I mean, they get to sit all day and stare at shelves of smelly old books, and they have nothing better to do than complain.
Personally, I think that if they really want to do something they should all get themselves some really reliable laser printer, and get started on making those electronic archives permanent.
hmmm....
You must have hard copies because, what about when you are going step by step through a howto or something and you kill your box. I mean, not everyone has multiple boxen in the same room...
...although you should.
This new technology may have interesting effects in geekdom. Imagine: No more going hours without food so that you can meet your coding deadlines. Getting vital sustenance from a patch could be a boon to late night coders the world over.
It seems to me that Microsoft hasnt been alone in their business practices for quite some time. Not only companies like Time Warner/AOL but also companies like Cisco Systems.
Although they produced a large part of the hardware that makes up the internet, they have used their power for evil. Cisco is extremely proprietary with their products. They have made it a practice to forbid any and all companies from creating software for their routers therebye making CiscoIOS the only choice for peoples' router needs.
Another thing that should be addressed is CiscoIOS itself. Cisco has made a practice of buying smaller router producing companies and taking their router software and slapping a CiscoIOS label on it. So we have many many versions of CiscoIOS that are extremely dissimilar.
By doing all of that, Cisco has created a closed loop that relies completely on them being at the center.
Internet technology is one of the fastest growing industries right now and Cisco's business practices are stifling growth. For example, Cisco uses marketing to sell their products, even though they may not always be the best available. (Sound familiar?) Cisco's reliance on marketing is illustrated by the fact that they were one of the last companies on the planet who developed a Terabit router.
All of this adds up to the fact that Cisco is developing a monopoly and they arent even trying to not do it. They are forming their power base even more aggresively than Microsoft.
There was no Netscape 5.
That is the only possible explanation that I can think of right now. They just skipped over "5" and went straight to 6 in a lame attempt to make it seem that Netscape 6 is more advanced than IE 5. This will probably work with the multitude of stupid people who believe that version numbers are the tellall in the world of computers. (these are probably the same stupid people who think that AOL is that best thing since the transistor.)
Even though I will probably be able to go to quite a few websites that will cause Netscape 6 to crash and burn, it is still a good ploy.
does this mean that i am goin to lose my patent on the 3.714 click method?
will i have to allow the entire world to use the word "Design" in their websites?
this stifling of creativity is really bogus
From what i know of theoretical physics, in order to create antigravity devices, scientists must discover how gravity works by fitting it into a unified field theory equation. From the amount of progress they have made so far, it appears that they will have to discover a "graviton" before they can do this.
They can also make antigravity if they discover a substance that scientists call "exotic matter" this is a theoretical substance that supposedly has many strange and useful properties.
Unfortunately, this will result in antigravity, but they will still not know anything about gravity.
Ernest, as in Ernest scared stupid,... etc...
"EYYYYEWWWWWOOOOOOYEWWWWWW"
did microsoft know that windows would suck?!?!?
remebers those old hard drives that were about 150lbs and they had platters that were about 2 feet across? Those thing must have been the most 31337 outdatedstorage devices that ive ever seen.You could throw those things at people and it would be cool.
These sort of disputes should take into account exactly who got the name first and whether they want too use their domain for anything remotely having any thing to do with what their name implies.
There should be some sort of mechanism in place to stop frivolous forms of this from even becoming and issue. for example we all remember the whatshappenin.com/quepasa.com thing.
Here as with many other things, common sense plays a large factor and any body dumb enough to let it get past their secratary should be drawn and quartered and be hung from the ceiling and beaten to a pulp with raw carrots.
If you ask me, anybody who wants to make it look like they manufacture iFruits needs to take a good long look at their goals.
Personally I dont really like the Macintosh computers or their OS, and I especially think they are evil when they put them in that disgusting shell. I dunno, maybe it's just that I once read in the bible that satan disguises himself as an angel of light.