So let's get this straight... when a stock skyrockets up to an insane amount during its IPO, goes up a bit higher over the course of a few months, and then stays steady for the rest of time, it's healthy.
When a stock doesn't skyrocket up, and instead grows slowly for a long period of time, and honestly reflects a company's performance in the real world (rather than being inflated by hype and creative accounting), it's not at all healthy.
Am I missing something? Since when is a hyped-up, short-term, IPO-only-or-you-have-no-chance-in-hell-of-investin g, no-profit-showing stock better than one which actually grows? --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a .
Aww, c'mon, give dselect more than just one try. I hated it at first, but after I learned the basic keystrokes I started to actually get the hang of it, and after learing the advanced keystrokes I've grown quite fond of it. It's much easier, IMO, to deal with dselect and see exactly what's going to change and what needs downloading and explicitly state which packages shouldn't be upgraded unless necessary than to have to deal with apt or dpkg on the commandline and take lots of leaps of faith.
I use dselect almost exclusively now, especially when doing updates (so that I can hold packages which I don't really need to be upgraded, rather than having to do a 100MB download once a week). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
This isn't about consumers. This is about Xerox developing a key technology and gaining a patent on it, Palm/USR/3com using technology covered by the patent, and Xerox wanting some sort of compensation. The whole point to a patent is to protect the (theoretically) first person/company to develop a technology. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Do you have proof? Can you show an example of such a piece of handwriting which can be undoubtedly shown to be in the public eye before Xeroc filed for a patent on it?
Didn't think so.
IANAPL, but I'm pretty sure that it needs to be more than just one person's private knowledge to count as prior art. Look at what happened with the telephone. Also, I'd imagine that the Unistroke patent covers the methodology of using a specific simplified character set for the purpose of simplified handwriting recognition, not for the purpose of simplifying the act of writing (which probably isn't patentable anyway; that'd be like patenting a certain way of holding a pencil or patenting a particular font). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
No, you're thinking of trademarks. Patents can be enforced arbitrarily. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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This has been featured on Slashdot before. Slashdot has also featured suck.com's recent parody, and Rob was quite happily laughing at it. Just because one particular/. parody doesn't make it into one particular batch of quickies doesn't necessarily mean that they're censoring it... --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Er, yeah, my mistake. Damned similar names... in fact, I wonder if maybe ValuJet/AirTran chose their new name specifically to confuse people in that way. It certainly worked on me. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, a simple namechange like that didn't really help ValueJet/Airbus any. I don't think that changing the name will help Windows any - in fact, I'm pretty sure that'd make it less-popular, since there isn't the brandname recognition and people will think "What's this Nextel crap? All my programs are for Windows."
That said, I hope 0.001soft tries such a thing, so that they can fail miserably.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I think this guy just wants to be uberleet and say "y4h d00d, im websurf1ng fr0m a be0wu1f b0x!" or something. It completely fits the Slashdot "Beowulfs are cool, I bet you could play a really mean game of Quake on one!" mentality, completely disregarding the fact that along with a Beowulf's high bandwidth it has *very* high latency; it's NOT for interactive processes but for *offline* processing.
Then again, what's with geeks who build a Beowulf machine just for mass-MP3 encoding and the like? You'd be better-served by just having independent systems and avoid the overhead of PVM or whatever. Unless you're doing large-scale numerical analysis or a lot of very intense rendering (with PVM/POVRAY), a Beowulf is completely, utterly *pointless*. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Usually when something like this happens, I bite my tongue and let the other naysayers come out of the woodwork. However, I would expect better from Slashdot not to use a sensationalist headline like "Red Caps Adopt Red Hat," and I would hope that the editors would know better than trying to stir up flames by pointing out their (not really that recent) sentencing of crackers (isn't this the same news site which is constantly trying to distinguish between a hacker and a cracker?). It seems that whenever things involve China or other non-English-speaking nations, Slashdot gets nice and sensational, showing only one side of the issue even when that side is relatively irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Thanks, Nathan, for putting a sour taste in my mouth tonight. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I believe you are confused yourself. Communists are a government for the total good of the people??? As in North Korea, for example?
No, North Korea is what happens to communism over time - they degenerate into fascism. Read "Animal Farm" someday, and then look at what has happened to every single communist nation. True, Marxist communism is simply the ultimate in socialism; however, it relies too heavily on the altruism of its constituents. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I believe you're confused. Democrats are, at least on the political scale, closer to socialists/communists (government for the total good of the people) than fascists/nazis (government for the regulation and repression of the people), whom the Republicans are closer to. Of course, in reality, both Democrats and Republicans are pretty moderate, and middle-of-the-road compared to their extremist counterparts. True Libertarians are orthoganal on the social/political scale to both true Democrats and true Republicans. In addition, since the Libertarian party is so new, most of its constituents are still in the enthusiastic stage before they've found the inevitable collapse towards moderate.
By the way, I appreciate some of the sentiments of Libertarians (personal freedoms with assumed responsibility and the like), but unfortunately, the vast number of people in the United States aren't responsible or intelligent enough for a Libertarian system to work on a large scale. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
What about a US citizen ordering medication from a pharmacy in, say, New Zealand? There are many legitimate reasons to take advantage of the regulations regarding imported medicines (a three-month supply for one person is actually protected under US Customs laws); for example, some medicines are vastly cheaper when ordered abroad (for example, certain hormones are $45 for a three-month supply ordered from New Zealand instead of $200+ for a one-month supply purchased in the USA), and some are difficult or impossible to get a prescription for in the USA (many "smart" drugs, for example, or hormones taken for various purposes which the medical community frowns upon - not everyone wants to fit neatly into the XY-male/XX-female sex stereotype which they were born into). Also, in the case of ordering from New Zealand, it's not as though they're a third-world nation where any product you order will be incredibly shoddy; usually it's the exact same stuff as produced in the United States or in England.
Does this only apply to prescriptions ordered online from US pharmacies? They're already regulated, at least at the state level. If it applies to international pharmacies as well, that means they're hoping to override a very convenient, useful, and oftentimes necessary loophole purposefully left in the US Customs laws. I just don't really see what this attempt at regulation is trying to help; certainly not consumers. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Do you really want to have your supplier either have to hook up a single water main to your house (at great expense) or have each of the regional suppliers have a bunch of mains through your neighborhood? Having just one main from a city-regulated water supplier leads to enough troubles as it is. Where are all those extra mains going to go?
There are certain things which, by their very nature, mandate a monopoly. This is why the government regulates it - better that it be paid for by taxes and be setup in the common interest than to be regulated by cost-cutting cutthroat competition.
Here in Albuquerque, the water/sewage treatment plants are self-sufficient. They use the fermented gasses from the sewage to power their own generators to get their own electricity. They also sell some of that electricity to the power company for some income. Oh, and they are mostly computer-automated; they have very few workers actually doing anything. It's practically autonomous and automatic. They're unsure as to whether all their systems are Y2K-compliant. If it isn't, then there'll be a few days of badly mistreated water. My mom, a microbiologist and science writer, has been taking samples from the incoming and outgoing streams (and she's fallen in love with the word "throughput," which is used in more situations than just webservers) for a grant with the city. She's looking forward to the interesting results from 1/1/2000. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
You can be anonymous without being an AC. You (most likely) still don't know what this person's real name is, what his home address or phonenumber are, or any of the other things associated with identity. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I believe that in most UNIXes, rm -rf stops if it hits a directory you don't have permission to delete. I could be wrong, of course. Though probably the worst thing you can do is, say, rm -rf ~/../* - then any sad luser (at least in the same home directory mount as you) who has left their directory world- or group-writeable loses all their stuff.
Normally I'd check things out to back them up, but this is one thing I don't want to verify.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Oops, I almost made it sound as though I run as root. I'm not saying that I do, but some people do. What I meant was 'rm -rf ~' - much more disastrous for a user account. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Yeah, like, maybe just having something like the good old thing where it looks at the first line of a file to determine what it should be run with.
#!/usr/bin/perl
Every UNIX I know of does this automatically in any call to exec*(). Why can't a webbrowser do this for applets? Just get it as application/applet or something and then it can run it directly. Seems to be an okay way to do it, except that I'm squeamish about running any arbitrary code I'd run across on the web. Like, I wouldn't want Netscape to automatically run the following "applet":
#!/bin/sh rm -rf/
Which is, of course, why Java is setup as a secure, isolated virtual machine, and why ActiveVirus...er, ActiveX uses a silly signature/authentication mechanism to make sure it really is a trusted source, in theory anyway. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Fizgig most likely means an assembler to emit compiled Python bytecode, much in the same way that a traditional assembler puts out compiled x86 bytecode (i.e. instructions), as opposed to compiling Python (the language) into Python bytecode. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
The article said that he does everything an adult software executive can do. I don't think that says much for this kid, just says how easy an executive's job is.;) I mean, come on, all he does is make charts and stuff. This reeks of fluffy PR. He's just "mastered" the alphabet and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and he can move a mouse around. And this makes him qualified as a software executive.
As others have pointed out, this PR stunt will probably come and bite them in the butt later when people cry "child labor" and "exploitation." In the meantime, let them have their laughs...
(I'd be more coherent but I've got an icky cold right now.) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
complacency Pronunciation: -s&n(t)-sE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -cies Date: 1650 1 : COMPLACENCE; especially : self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies 2 : an instance of complacency --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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When a stock doesn't skyrocket up, and instead grows slowly for a long period of time, and honestly reflects a company's performance in the real world (rather than being inflated by hype and creative accounting), it's not at all healthy.
Am I missing something? Since when is a hyped-up, short-term, IPO-only-or-you-have-no-chance-in-hell-of-investin g, no-profit-showing stock better than one which actually grows?
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I use dselect almost exclusively now, especially when doing updates (so that I can hold packages which I don't really need to be upgraded, rather than having to do a 100MB download once a week).
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This isn't about consumers. This is about Xerox developing a key technology and gaining a patent on it, Palm/USR/3com using technology covered by the patent, and Xerox wanting some sort of compensation. The whole point to a patent is to protect the (theoretically) first person/company to develop a technology.
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(Damnit, someone should write a "patent law for dummies" for /. readers or something.)
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Didn't think so.
IANAPL, but I'm pretty sure that it needs to be more than just one person's private knowledge to count as prior art. Look at what happened with the telephone. Also, I'd imagine that the Unistroke patent covers the methodology of using a specific simplified character set for the purpose of simplified handwriting recognition, not for the purpose of simplifying the act of writing (which probably isn't patentable anyway; that'd be like patenting a certain way of holding a pencil or patenting a particular font).
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No, you're thinking of trademarks. Patents can be enforced arbitrarily.
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This has been featured on Slashdot before. Slashdot has also featured suck.com's recent parody, and Rob was quite happily laughing at it. Just because one particular /. parody doesn't make it into one particular batch of quickies doesn't necessarily mean that they're censoring it...
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Er, yeah, my mistake. Damned similar names... in fact, I wonder if maybe ValuJet/AirTran chose their new name specifically to confuse people in that way. It certainly worked on me.
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That said, I hope 0.001soft tries such a thing, so that they can fail miserably. :)
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Try filling the gas tank.
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Then again, what's with geeks who build a Beowulf machine just for mass-MP3 encoding and the like? You'd be better-served by just having independent systems and avoid the overhead of PVM or whatever. Unless you're doing large-scale numerical analysis or a lot of very intense rendering (with PVM/POVRAY), a Beowulf is completely, utterly *pointless*.
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Thanks, Nathan, for putting a sour taste in my mouth tonight.
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No, North Korea is what happens to communism over time - they degenerate into fascism. Read "Animal Farm" someday, and then look at what has happened to every single communist nation. True, Marxist communism is simply the ultimate in socialism; however, it relies too heavily on the altruism of its constituents.
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By the way, I appreciate some of the sentiments of Libertarians (personal freedoms with assumed responsibility and the like), but unfortunately, the vast number of people in the United States aren't responsible or intelligent enough for a Libertarian system to work on a large scale.
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Does this only apply to prescriptions ordered online from US pharmacies? They're already regulated, at least at the state level. If it applies to international pharmacies as well, that means they're hoping to override a very convenient, useful, and oftentimes necessary loophole purposefully left in the US Customs laws. I just don't really see what this attempt at regulation is trying to help; certainly not consumers.
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Pi (the movie).
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Do you really want to have your supplier either have to hook up a single water main to your house (at great expense) or have each of the regional suppliers have a bunch of mains through your neighborhood? Having just one main from a city-regulated water supplier leads to enough troubles as it is. Where are all those extra mains going to go?
There are certain things which, by their very nature, mandate a monopoly. This is why the government regulates it - better that it be paid for by taxes and be setup in the common interest than to be regulated by cost-cutting cutthroat competition.
Here in Albuquerque, the water/sewage treatment plants are self-sufficient. They use the fermented gasses from the sewage to power their own generators to get their own electricity. They also sell some of that electricity to the power company for some income. Oh, and they are mostly computer-automated; they have very few workers actually doing anything. It's practically autonomous and automatic. They're unsure as to whether all their systems are Y2K-compliant. If it isn't, then there'll be a few days of badly mistreated water. My mom, a microbiologist and science writer, has been taking samples from the incoming and outgoing streams (and she's fallen in love with the word "throughput," which is used in more situations than just webservers) for a grant with the city. She's looking forward to the interesting results from 1/1/2000.
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You can be anonymous without being an AC. You (most likely) still don't know what this person's real name is, what his home address or phonenumber are, or any of the other things associated with identity.
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Normally I'd check things out to back them up, but this is one thing I don't want to verify. :)
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Oops, I almost made it sound as though I run as root. I'm not saying that I do, but some people do. What I meant was 'rm -rf ~' - much more disastrous for a user account.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
Every UNIX I know of does this automatically in any call to exec*(). Why can't a webbrowser do this for applets? Just get it as application/applet or something and then it can run it directly. Seems to be an okay way to do it, except that I'm squeamish about running any arbitrary code I'd run across on the web. Like, I wouldn't want Netscape to automatically run the following "applet":
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rm -rf
Which is, of course, why Java is setup as a secure, isolated virtual machine, and why ActiveVirus...er, ActiveX uses a silly signature/authentication mechanism to make sure it really is a trusted source, in theory anyway.
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Fizgig most likely means an assembler to emit compiled Python bytecode, much in the same way that a traditional assembler puts out compiled x86 bytecode (i.e. instructions), as opposed to compiling Python (the language) into Python bytecode.
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I hope you read the last paragraph on the 'story'.
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As others have pointed out, this PR stunt will probably come and bite them in the butt later when people cry "child labor" and "exploitation." In the meantime, let them have their laughs...
(I'd be more coherent but I've got an icky cold right now.)
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complacency
Pronunciation: -s&n(t)-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Date: 1650
1 : COMPLACENCE; especially : self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
2 : an instance of complacency
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