It was a German proverb BEFORE the Nazi's adopted, just like the swastika was the international symbol for peace before the Nazi's used.
Don't assume everything attached to the Nazi's was originated by them... after all, we've been committing genocide for as long as people have walked the Earth.
Geez Louise! Model railroaders are being picked on in the Slashdot community of all places. The same place where people collect model toys of VIDEO GAME characters and swords modelled after VIDEO GAME weapons.
I am personally proud to be a model railroader. And, yes, I own Trainz, Trainz Sim 2004, and Microsoft Train Sim. In my case, the video game is modelled after REAL LIFE, not the other way around.
I really wish that the/. community would stop being such hypocrites....
I think it could also help couriers as well. FedEx and UPS already implement a fairly sophisticated tracking system, but the USPS remains in the 'stone age' on this front because of the cost of implementing the technology.
With a cheap enough system, USPS could theoretically afford to implement them and bring them back up to speed with the bigger parcel couriers.
I think you're missing a bit of the Big Brother fear factor here. With the RIAA's tactics, their mere accusation that you are sharing is enough for these ISPs to bow down, regardless of whether you're actually sharing or not.
I don't share, but I do have quite a collection of audio and video on my PC. All of it is legit and owned by me, but with this precedent, the RIAA could perform some (illegal) scan of my PC, find the MP3s, and then just insinuate that I was trading or that they are somehow illegal.
That's what I'm afraid of. Letting big business become their own judge, jury, and executioner.
I would whole-heartidly agree. I still play The Incredible Machine and The EVEN MORE Incredible Machine to this day. However, I am pretty damned sure that there has never been a Mac release (except for maybe the original Incredible Machine).
I know that Mac versions of most of Maxis' SIM games can be found for the Mac, such as SIM City, SIM Life, SIM Earth. You just need to keep your eyes peeled. Chips & Bits (www.chipsbits.com) is a pretty decent mail order retailer that still carries a fair bit of old Mac Abandonware.
You might want to check out The Home of the Underdogs (www.the-underdogs.org). They're a repository of abandonware and have an EXCEPTIONAL plethora of edutainment titles. Granted, for legal reasons you wouldn't want to download any of them and have your kids play them. But, you could try them out and determine if the content is appropriate and then got to Chips & Bits (^above^) and buy them.
I absolutely love how the Slashdot community (And the tech community as a whole) seems to suffer from MPD about topics such as this.
When it's convenient to us, we *love* for Big Brother to step in and clean things up. That's the case here. No one likes viruses or spammers, so we're happy to let the big ISPs lock things down.
But, as soon as people start enforcing policies that we don't like, you see these forums all ablaze with how unethical and **evil** commercial internet providers are. This is the case where the ISPs do port blocking or connection speed throttling and the like.
Make up you damned minds, people! You can't have it both ways.
I agree. Mathematical simplicity is just a re-assertion of the natural tendency of the physical world to be in a 'rest' state.
Remember that from kinematics? Newton's laws. Things like to be at rest.
Physical quantities in the real world of hundreds of billions of years have had plenty of time to slowly reduce themselves to relationships that approach the golden ratio.
*We* all know that the columnist is talking out of his ass. Please take the time to flood the BBC with comments about the article expressing your displeasure.
If enough of us do it (and hell, why can't we if we can cause entire servers to DoS), we might be able to convince them to issue a retraction/apology about the story.
From Colorado University, the original press release is here.
Don't mean to nit-pick, but that would be 'The University of Colorado at Boulder' for the link you provided. 'Colorado University' exists and it is a totally different school with totally different programs.
NEW YORK--IBM has put more weight behind its effort to attract customers to Linux that runs on its own Power processors, an initiative that distinguishes Big Blue from its competitors in the server market.
In 2003, Linux on Power was a subsidized development project within IBM, but now it's a group with a revenue responsibility. To that end, IBM is working harder to attract software partners, write its own applications and ensnare customers.
"We're taking the value proposition of Linux and moving it to Power," Jim Stallings, general manager of Linux for IBM, said at a news conference at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.
And he's swayed some. Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff had been skeptical about the depth of IBM's Linux-on-Power push. "Linux on Power has been a lot of talk and professions of grand strategic intent without a whole lot of committed resources behind it. I don't think you can say that any longer," Haff said.
Among Linux on Power customers IBM announced Wednesday are Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, Intermountain Health Care, the State University of New York at Albany, LexCom, National Semiconductor, Black Hills and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
IBM is trying to attract specific software partners in a handful of market segments, and is moving its own software to Linux on Power as well. At the show, the company is demonstrating its upcoming "Stinger" version of its DB2 database software that will run on 64-bit Power processors and take advantage of the new 2.6 kernel, or heart, of the Linux operating system.
Stallings hinted that more software partners may be appearing soon. "We're working closely with SAP to explore this area of Linux and Power," Stallings said. SAP's software is widely used to run accounting, inventory and other important business operations.
Linux is most widely used on computers using "x86" Intel processors such as Xeon and Pentium or Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon. Indeed, Intel's xSeries server line, which uses Intel processors, was the first foothold the operating system found within the company.
But Linux spread, first to IBM's mainframes and now to its Power processor-based pSeries and iSeries servers. Those systems today most commonly run two IBM operating systems, the AIX version of Unix and OS/400, respectively.
IBM hopes to make Power servers available at the same cost as those using Intel processors, said Brian Connors, IBM's vice president of Linux on Power. A key part of that will be the PowerPC processor, which is used in IBM's JS20 Power blade server as well as in Apple Computer's G5 computers.
Though Big Blue wants Power to be widespread, it doesn't have desktop computing in its crosshairs. "Our focus right now is clearly on the server," Connors said.
IBM--the loudest Linux advocate--was the first company sued by SCO Group in that company's attack on Linux. SCO argues that IBM breached its contract by moving Unix intellectual property such as file system software from Unix to Linux, a charge IBM disputes.
While several companies--Novell, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and the Open Source Development Labs--have begun indemnification programs or other legal protections for Linux customers, IBM steadfastly refuses to do so outside its contribution to the OSDL's legal defense fund.
"There's not a reason for having to indemnify if there's no basis for it," Stallings said.
In an interview, Stallings added, "Customers are not asking for indemnification. They're calling and saying, 'Explain to us what's going on.'" Once informed, they are happy to buy Linux, he said.
Customer views have been changing, though. Stuart Cohen, chief executive of OSDL, said in an interview that the Linux consortium began its $10 million legal defense fund for Linux users because of Linux customer requests.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the IBM vice president of technology and strategy who spearheaded Big Blue's Linux push, said IBM is addressing the situation as directly as possible with its legal fight against SCO.
"In our legal system, you get it over with by going to court," Wladawsky-Berger said. "We think the actions we're taking are absolutely the right actions to take the issue behind us."
I think the smarter route would be to require that the commercials be recorded along with the core program, but have a digital flag that allows the end user to either skip them or watch them in sequence with the program.
A corollary to this would be to allow the user to watch all of the commercials in one back-to-back block as well. (I for one, actually find commercials informative from time to time).
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Hell, he did wonderful things for saddam ;-)
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fp!!
It was a German proverb BEFORE the Nazi's adopted, just like the swastika was the international symbol for peace before the Nazi's used.
Don't assume everything attached to the Nazi's was originated by them... after all, we've been committing genocide for as long as people have walked the Earth.
Geez Louise! Model railroaders are being picked on in the Slashdot community of all places. The same place where people collect model toys of VIDEO GAME characters and swords modelled after VIDEO GAME weapons.
/. community would stop being such hypocrites....
I am personally proud to be a model railroader. And, yes, I own Trainz, Trainz Sim 2004, and Microsoft Train Sim. In my case, the video game is modelled after REAL LIFE, not the other way around.
I really wish that the
I think it could also help couriers as well. FedEx and UPS already implement a fairly sophisticated tracking system, but the USPS remains in the 'stone age' on this front because of the cost of implementing the technology.
With a cheap enough system, USPS could theoretically afford to implement them and bring them back up to speed with the bigger parcel couriers.
I think he was making an allusion to the Win9x shell enhancement that came with NT4.
:-)
NT 3.5.x *was* out before Win95
I think you're missing a bit of the Big Brother fear factor here. With the RIAA's tactics, their mere accusation that you are sharing is enough for these ISPs to bow down, regardless of whether you're actually sharing or not.
I don't share, but I do have quite a collection of audio and video on my PC. All of it is legit and owned by me, but with this precedent, the RIAA could perform some (illegal) scan of my PC, find the MP3s, and then just insinuate that I was trading or that they are somehow illegal.
That's what I'm afraid of. Letting big business become their own judge, jury, and executioner.
Exactly. A story like this is bound to fail if they attempt to modernize it.
The entire impetus behind why people were so scared is intrinisicly linked to it being set in that time period.
I don't know about anyone else, but personally I'd prefer to see Silverberg's Majipoor Chronicles made into a mini-series...
Or, if we have to stick with Le Guin, what about The Word for World is Forest or The Left Hand of Darkness ?
I would whole-heartidly agree. I still play The Incredible Machine and The EVEN MORE Incredible Machine to this day. However, I am pretty damned sure that there has never been a Mac release (except for maybe the original Incredible Machine).
I know that Mac versions of most of Maxis' SIM games can be found for the Mac, such as SIM City, SIM Life, SIM Earth. You just need to keep your eyes peeled. Chips & Bits (www.chipsbits.com) is a pretty decent mail order retailer that still carries a fair bit of old Mac Abandonware.
You might want to check out The Home of the Underdogs (www.the-underdogs.org). They're a repository of abandonware and have an EXCEPTIONAL plethora of edutainment titles. Granted, for legal reasons you wouldn't want to download any of them and have your kids play them. But, you could try them out and determine if the content is appropriate and then got to Chips & Bits (^above^) and buy them.
I absolutely love how the Slashdot community (And the tech community as a whole) seems to suffer from MPD about topics such as this.
When it's convenient to us, we *love* for Big Brother to step in and clean things up. That's the case here. No one likes viruses or spammers, so we're happy to let the big ISPs lock things down.
But, as soon as people start enforcing policies that we don't like, you see these forums all ablaze with how unethical and **evil** commercial internet providers are. This is the case where the ISPs do port blocking or connection speed throttling and the like.
Make up you damned minds, people! You can't have it both ways.
Just wanted to say thanks for the link in your sig. I'm a huge fan of the MOO series (although 3 was a bit of a let down), so it caught my attention.
While I agree that MOO was great, I personally loved MOM more and wish they had done a sequel. The first one was way too short.
finally, *I* get to have FP...
No, it sounds like the plot of EVERY episode of the Sopranos.
Anyone else notice that this guy's last name, Paniccia, is earily close to the English word 'panacea' ?
:-P
I thought there were no panaceas in the world. Or maybe Intel is hoping for one with this research
I agree. Mathematical simplicity is just a re-assertion of the natural tendency of the physical world to be in a 'rest' state.
Remember that from kinematics? Newton's laws. Things like to be at rest.
Physical quantities in the real world of hundreds of billions of years have had plenty of time to slowly reduce themselves to relationships that approach the golden ratio.
How the HELL did this comment end up in the wrong thread??
*We* all know that the columnist is talking out of his ass. Please take the time to flood the BBC with comments about the article expressing your displeasure.
If enough of us do it (and hell, why can't we if we can cause entire servers to DoS), we might be able to convince them to issue a retraction/apology about the story.
From Colorado University, the original press release is here.
Don't mean to nit-pick, but that would be 'The University of Colorado at Boulder' for the link you provided. 'Colorado University' exists and it is a totally different school with totally different programs.
NEW YORK--IBM has put more weight behind its effort to attract customers to Linux that runs on its own Power processors, an initiative that distinguishes Big Blue from its competitors in the server market.
In 2003, Linux on Power was a subsidized development project within IBM, but now it's a group with a revenue responsibility. To that end, IBM is working harder to attract software partners, write its own applications and ensnare customers.
"We're taking the value proposition of Linux and moving it to Power," Jim Stallings, general manager of Linux for IBM, said at a news conference at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.
And he's swayed some. Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff had been skeptical about the depth of IBM's Linux-on-Power push. "Linux on Power has been a lot of talk and professions of grand strategic intent without a whole lot of committed resources behind it. I don't think you can say that any longer," Haff said.
Among Linux on Power customers IBM announced Wednesday are Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, Intermountain Health Care, the State University of New York at Albany, LexCom, National Semiconductor, Black Hills and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
IBM is trying to attract specific software partners in a handful of market segments, and is moving its own software to Linux on Power as well. At the show, the company is demonstrating its upcoming "Stinger" version of its DB2 database software that will run on 64-bit Power processors and take advantage of the new 2.6 kernel, or heart, of the Linux operating system.
Stallings hinted that more software partners may be appearing soon. "We're working closely with SAP to explore this area of Linux and Power," Stallings said. SAP's software is widely used to run accounting, inventory and other important business operations.
Linux is most widely used on computers using "x86" Intel processors such as Xeon and Pentium or Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon. Indeed, Intel's xSeries server line, which uses Intel processors, was the first foothold the operating system found within the company.
But Linux spread, first to IBM's mainframes and now to its Power processor-based pSeries and iSeries servers. Those systems today most commonly run two IBM operating systems, the AIX version of Unix and OS/400, respectively.
IBM hopes to make Power servers available at the same cost as those using Intel processors, said Brian Connors, IBM's vice president of Linux on Power. A key part of that will be the PowerPC processor, which is used in IBM's JS20 Power blade server as well as in Apple Computer's G5 computers.
Though Big Blue wants Power to be widespread, it doesn't have desktop computing in its crosshairs. "Our focus right now is clearly on the server," Connors said.
IBM--the loudest Linux advocate--was the first company sued by SCO Group in that company's attack on Linux. SCO argues that IBM breached its contract by moving Unix intellectual property such as file system software from Unix to Linux, a charge IBM disputes.
While several companies--Novell, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and the Open Source Development Labs--have begun indemnification programs or other legal protections for Linux customers, IBM steadfastly refuses to do so outside its contribution to the OSDL's legal defense fund.
"There's not a reason for having to indemnify if there's no basis for it," Stallings said.
In an interview, Stallings added, "Customers are not asking for indemnification. They're calling and saying, 'Explain to us what's going on.'" Once informed, they are happy to buy Linux, he said.
Customer views have been changing, though. Stuart Cohen, chief executive of OSDL, said in an interview that the Linux consortium began its $10 million legal defense fund for Linux users because of Linux customer requests.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the IBM vice president of technology and strategy who spearheaded Big Blue's Linux push, said IBM is addressing the situation as directly as possible with its legal fight against SCO.
"In our legal system, you get it over with by going to court," Wladawsky-Berger said. "We think the actions we're taking are absolutely the right actions to take the issue behind us."
It's a good thing you posted anonymously because it's very possible that that poster could be a WOMAN...heaven forbid!
/. My GF is one of them. :-)
Yes, gals exist on
I never stopped buying my CDs. I can honestly say that every single audio file (OGG, not MP3) is legally owned by me and always has been.
I think the smarter route would be to require that the commercials be recorded along with the core program, but have a digital flag that allows the end user to either skip them or watch them in sequence with the program.
A corollary to this would be to allow the user to watch all of the commercials in one back-to-back block as well. (I for one, actually find commercials informative from time to time).
No, I'm sure the Reverent Bill at ye Church of Microsoft is in the process of migrating the entire development farm to these.
I think The Donald would even have a hard time justifying it because it's just a big heatsink for crying out loud...
thank God someone finally mentioned this here. I was reading this comment thread thinking 'am I back in 1999'?
/. community seems much less of the cutting edge than they like to congratulate themselves for being.
Those of us in the enthusiast scene have been doing this for years. I upgraded the BIOS on my Ti500 to get extra frames out of it.
I also upgraded the BIOS of my GeForce1 to enable sidebanding and make it a Quadro.
Suddenly, the