...is like declaring victory because you're the last person to hit the ground in the plane crash. How much has this cost Novell and IBM in real $$'s? With SCO bankrupt how can either expect to recoup any of the 7 years of court costs?
And here, for all these years, we here at/. always claimed those stupid "Turbo" buttons on the front of our PC's were meaningless. Leave it to the FBI to prove us all wrong!
What are they talking about? I successfuly transplanted one of my Gnomes from the side garden to the front garden just last week. I even have pictures to prove it! How can they claim to be the first?
The shock of this story has left me nearly speechless. A bug that causes a browser to crash? A story so lame this early in the morning? How can these things be?
Step 1: Ask 15 to 20 major companies to each sponsor a "scanning trailer". They'd get their name and logo all over it and be part of the on-going story and never-ending literature, etc. Step 2: Build-out a tractor trailer per sponsor to include everything needed to do scanning of archived materials (books, papers, photos, glass photo plates, etc.). Power source, scanners (many per trailer), etc. Step 3: Drive the swarm of scanning trucks to the parking lots of an archive in need of backup. Step 4: Connect the truck's network output to the archive's network to store the scanned data. Step 5: Get local volunteers to work with the "full-time professional" in each truck to retreive (a little at a time), scan, and return the materials to the archive.
The plan would be to drive this swarm around the country, full time, and do this kind of work whereever it is needed.
I find it disturbing that these companies, most of which are huge all by themselves, haven't been forced by the courts to fight their own battles by using their own individual resources to track down the infringers of their own copyrights.
Therefore, as it stands, this basically represents a reverse-class-action suit, with many individual plaintiffs collectively suing a single defendent.
Two groups of investigators in Europe have developed engineered nanoscale materials that enhance images obtained using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. With further development, these nanomaterials have the potential to improve the detection of early stage cancer.
only 2% of authors in Usenet newsgroups are likely to be the helpful 'answer person' type -- authors who reply to many other people with brief replies. Another typical marker for an 'answer person' posting is the fact that the conversation (usually a random flurry of replies to the original question) usually stops quickly once they chime in, as everyone else recognizes that their answer is correct and complete.
How would the community have coped with two of the largest vendors doing so?" It would have not impacted anyone who posts here, right? The/. account application clearly stated that your PC had to be homemade, and your OS had to be free. No one here actually paid RedHat for their copy of Linux, did they? Hey... wait a minute... you are running Linux, aren't you??
the team created a hybrid of the two DNA molecules, which they used to select a series of mutated Cre enzymes that were increasingly able to recognize the combined DNA. That's a powerful statement.
This report from Microsoft's Jeff R. Jones is ludicrous...
This isn't a debunking.
I feel Jeff really needs to perform another less exaggerated analysis.
It's an armchair critique of someone else's work.
[...] a good start for learning about [Vista flaws] is the Symantec paper that analyzed Vista during the BETA phases and revealed numerous issues.
A competitor (see Live OneCare) wrote an article about an early BETA of a new OS saying is had some issues? Shocking!
Even though OS X claims to be secure, researchers have obviously shown that Apple will have flaws too. This is nature of software, and it affects all code.
What are you saying here, Kristian? Bugs are inevitable, so we should just give Apple a free pass on their share of problems because, well, it affects all software?
Ok, that's enough of that.
I feel Kristian really needs to perform his own research and analysis, and draw his own conclusions.
PS: Don't mod this as flamebait until you read Kristian's entire post. Really.
"Take a piece of copper wiring," says Meddick. "It is encased in plastic - a kind of hydrocarbon material. [stick it in our microwave] and we release all the hydrocarbons, which strips the casing off the wire." I knew the microwave manufacturer's were lying to us all these years! They kept telling us not to put metal in our microwaves, and now I know why: they just wanted to keep this money-making technology to themselves. You Bastards!
...640K? Sound familiar? 500MB in this day in age is a joke. But to state that it is specifically targeted for users to store their digital pictures and *video*, that's just plain insulting.
Let this be a reverse-anthromorphic lesson to everyone in the Linux community: People care about size! Once your on-disk image gets too big (5-foot tall??) your fork will ultimately go extinct.
Why would you do this? In an age during which we are trying to figure out how to get OUT of the business of burning fossil fuels to generate power why would someone create a competition to see who can make a car that not only burns LPG, but then takes that and converts it to steam energy, which is then converted mechanical energy. Wow! I don't think it could be any less efficient if they tried.
Well, perhaps they could have stuck a generator on the end of the steam engine and used the resulting electricity to power a spotlight to shine onto a solar cell that runs a motor connected to pump that lifts water from a tank to the top of a water-wheel, that is then connected to the car's transmission. Although, at that point they may run into copyright issues with Goldberg, et al.
Good point regarding the technology. But I disagree with your implication that whale hunting, in any form, is reasonable as long as the number killed is monitored. I'm not a whale-hugger, but I do take every chance I have to remind folks that there is a difference between "not endangered" and "flurishing." I wonder what would happen to the oceanic ecosystem if we radically increased the total number of whales we allow to live in our oceans?
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I for one welcome our new Worm overlords!
...is like declaring victory because you're the last person to hit the ground in the plane crash. How much has this cost Novell and IBM in real $$'s? With SCO bankrupt how can either expect to recoup any of the 7 years of court costs?
That's the next question outta my mouth after trying to figure out why the #!*@$ I walked into the kitchen in the first place.
Where's my blue sharpy marker?
...welcome and embrace our new kick-accepting balancing robot overlords.
And here, for all these years, we here at /. always claimed those stupid "Turbo" buttons on the front of our PC's were meaningless. Leave it to the FBI to prove us all wrong!
Key Phrase from the video: "...I'm usually the crew chief, not the driver..."
A salesperson suggesting someone buy something they don't need? That's inconceivable!!
[Inigo Montoya whispers in your ear] "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"
What are they talking about? I successfuly transplanted one of my Gnomes from the side garden to the front garden just last week. I even have pictures to prove it! How can they claim to be the first?
The shock of this story has left me nearly speechless. A bug that causes a browser to crash? A story so lame this early in the morning? How can these things be?
Strange? This /. /. Rule #1: Windows sucks. /. Rule #2: Stories demonstrating that Rule #1 isn't absolute will be downplayed appropriately.
What I expect to hear from my new "dual mode" Magellan after renting a car in London and asking for directions to Big Ben.
Step 1: Ask 15 to 20 major companies to each sponsor a "scanning trailer". They'd get their name and logo all over it and be part of the on-going story and never-ending literature, etc.
Step 2: Build-out a tractor trailer per sponsor to include everything needed to do scanning of archived materials (books, papers, photos, glass photo plates, etc.). Power source, scanners (many per trailer), etc.
Step 3: Drive the swarm of scanning trucks to the parking lots of an archive in need of backup.
Step 4: Connect the truck's network output to the archive's network to store the scanned data.
Step 5: Get local volunteers to work with the "full-time professional" in each truck to retreive (a little at a time), scan, and return the materials to the archive.
The plan would be to drive this swarm around the country, full time, and do this kind of work whereever it is needed.
I find it disturbing that these companies, most of which are huge all by themselves, haven't been forced by the courts to fight their own battles by using their own individual resources to track down the infringers of their own copyrights.
Therefore, as it stands, this basically represents a reverse-class-action suit, with many individual plaintiffs collectively suing a single defendent.
Interestingly, this same material is being used in a variety of other fields, including medical; specifically in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
From the article: Engineered Nanomaterials Improve Magnetic Resonance
Two groups of investigators in Europe have developed engineered nanoscale materials that enhance images obtained using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. With further development, these nanomaterials have the potential to improve the detection of early stage cancer.This isn't a debunking.
I feel Jeff really needs to perform another less exaggerated analysis.It's an armchair critique of someone else's work.
[...] a good start for learning about [Vista flaws] is the Symantec paper that analyzed Vista during the BETA phases and revealed numerous issues.A competitor (see Live OneCare) wrote an article about an early BETA of a new OS saying is had some issues? Shocking!
Even though OS X claims to be secure, researchers have obviously shown that Apple will have flaws too. This is nature of software, and it affects all code.What are you saying here, Kristian? Bugs are inevitable, so we should just give Apple a free pass on their share of problems because, well, it affects all software?
Ok, that's enough of that.
I feel Kristian really needs to perform his own research and analysis, and draw his own conclusions.
PS: Don't mod this as flamebait until you read Kristian's entire post. Really.
...640K? Sound familiar? 500MB in this day in age is a joke. But to state that it is specifically targeted for users to store their digital pictures and *video*, that's just plain insulting.
Let this be a reverse-anthromorphic lesson to everyone in the Linux community: People care about size! Once your on-disk image gets too big (5-foot tall??) your fork will ultimately go extinct.
Why would you do this? In an age during which we are trying to figure out how to get OUT of the business of burning fossil fuels to generate power why would someone create a competition to see who can make a car that not only burns LPG, but then takes that and converts it to steam energy, which is then converted mechanical energy. Wow! I don't think it could be any less efficient if they tried.
Well, perhaps they could have stuck a generator on the end of the steam engine and used the resulting electricity to power a spotlight to shine onto a solar cell that runs a motor connected to pump that lifts water from a tank to the top of a water-wheel, that is then connected to the car's transmission. Although, at that point they may run into copyright issues with Goldberg, et al.
I for one mourn the loss of our Gigantoraptor overlords. May we always be rulled by beings as humble and powerful as the Gigantoraptor.
Good point regarding the technology. But I disagree with your implication that whale hunting, in any form, is reasonable as long as the number killed is monitored. I'm not a whale-hugger, but I do take every chance I have to remind folks that there is a difference between "not endangered" and "flurishing." I wonder what would happen to the oceanic ecosystem if we radically increased the total number of whales we allow to live in our oceans?