Beautiful flash animation, though. I particularly like the fact that clicking the 'skip intro' button does absolutely nothing -- you get the flash garbage anyway.
Makes me glad I didn't read the article before posting.:)
I hereby announce my new rot13 compression method which achieves a 1:1 compression ratio! And as an added bonus, it is legally unbreakable encryption under the DCMA!
I'll give my answer, but it's from a weird point of view.
As always, I think it comes down to how the laws are applied. And that's where I get really scared for my liberties...
I'm glad you said that; maybe it'll make my weird point of view seem less weird. First of all, I have to say this: in high school history class, when I first heard the example the courts gave of shouting "Fire," in a crowded theater as evidence that you obviously couldn't have no restrictions on speech, I trembled.
Seems to me even many who are practically libertarians still accept this example without question. I just don't like the thought that courts think there are implicit limitations to free speech and that they are the ones to make those limitations explicit.
So, yes, I think it's bad to have to prove your speech true before it can be free. We don't require those Scientology nuts to prove their stuff true.
I'd say it's the minute someone else links to it. That's the way the web was intended in the beginning: the collection of all the documents you could get to "from here." Freenet's sort of the same way right now.
The minute something is linked to by someone else, it can be crawled by google, altavista, and so on.
Interestingly, the first amendment doesn't seem to recognize a difference between public and private.:)
It's rather frightening that things protected by the first amendment can be made illegal. "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
It's also kind of frightening that leaflets, newspapers, and megaphones today seem to be legally limited only to large corporations, and the medium with the most promise of letting the average citizen compete on an even footing is being unlawfully restrained in this manner.
Wow. The figures I quoted included tuition, fees, everything, except books. Throwing in rent I think it's still significantly less for a Texas resident. I knew we were below national average on our state school costs, but I didn't realize we were that far below.
$40000 for a state university? In Texas, it was around $1500/semester when I started, and around $2000/semester when I finished. We're a little below national average but not that much. I can see that much or more for private schools.
Vancouver-based UFIL Unified Data Technologies, a private company, claims that it owns U.S. patent 5,684,985, a "method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node." The patent was awarded in November 1997.
Didn't we pass a bill to make English the official language of the United States? Wouldn't that make this patent null and void?
Makes me wish I'd voted for that stupid idea...
To quote Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn): "Huck, if a Frenchman is a man, why don't he talk like a man?" (With apologies to French-speaking slashdot readers.:) )
I just don't see what "a method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node" has to do with RDF, but I'm sure the U.S. patent office knows better than me.
You know, some whiners have spent the last few months telling me we're starving the good people of Iraq. I've told them to bug off, that it wasn't our fault the Iraqi government wanted to destroy us and we couldn't afford to waste "aid" that would only wind up in the hands of a corrupt government instead of its people.
Now there's some room for disagreement over it, but I felt like it was reasonable to support the U.S. government's stance because of the way the government of Iraq is. To be blunt, they're evil and untrustworthy. I don't think it makes us evil to say we don't want to support Saddam Hussein.
But we're going to do the same thing to Ukraine --- because they're COPYING CD's?????
Again, as in the case of Sklyarov, I wonder why we feel people in other countries should obey our laws. I don't obey theirs.
I ran GeOS on the Apple IIGs! It was also the first software I ever read the license agreement for. It blew my mind and I was in a bad mood for two days. I couldn't believe they had the audacity to tell me I hadn't bought anything when we gave them money!.
That's a question I had, as well... isn't one of the big "selling points" about Linux the fact that there aren't branches and forks everywhere?
Good question, and good points. For me, though, one of the big selling points of Linux is that there can be branches and forks. The "right to fork," to me, is what makes free software free and what makes free software better. (That's why I've decided the GNU/Linux vs. Linux debate is all wrong; just call Linux a fork of GNU.)
The thing is, we just have to learn to fork in a civilized manner and not give bad impressions to the outside world. It looks like this is an excellent example of a civilized fork (but I don't read lkml, so there may be same flaming over it; who knows). Along with you, I hope it doesn't give the wrong impression to the outside world.
No, just first season minus the first three episodes. I'll get them when it cycles back around. Currently taping Sailor Moon R (Ail/Ann). This is what's airing Saturdays in the DFW area.
Hmm, I was going out, but I did just recently finish taping the entire first season of Sailor Moon, except for the first two or three. (DIC dubs, but they're okay.) Been looking for a good time to watch them all in succession.
Even more important to me, I don't think they can prevent you running your own modules. The reason that is important is education: I learned amazing things on my school accounts by compiling perl, fetchmail, etc. and installing them in my home directory. Just think what I could have learned if I could have simulated a whole operating system! (Which you can do by running a "sub-hurd".)
Actually I'm using Grub w/ Linux, too. Works pretty nice. And I'm planning on upgrading my lilo-based system at work to grub the hard way (I've actually recompiled everything from scratch a la Linux From Scratch. Then I want to install grub and upgrade to ext3.)
We should all use Hurd instead of Linux. Linux numbers disk partitions from 1 (/dev/hda1,/dev/hda2,...), while GRUB, the Hurd bootloader, numbers partitions from 0. As any self-respecting computer scientist knows, it is more proper to index things beginning with 0. Therefore, Hurd is a superior operating system, and we should all immediately switch to Hurd.
How many CIO's and IT Directors are there that have come from the programming pool? Less than 1/2?
Yeah, but maybe if they'd start picking CIO's and IT Directors from that pool they'd have IT organizations that aren't so crummy. I mean, is it too much to ask that my company's IT program be coordinated from the top down by a person who knows what it's about?
anymore than Bush's views on stem-cell research and abortion are representative of all Americans.
You say that like people who share his views should be second class citizens or something. Isn't there any room for disagreement on these somewhat ambiguous issues? Or should everyone who cringes at the thought of killing an unborn child be thrown out of the country?
Did anyone besides me wonder why most of these technologies that will change the PC in 2002 aren't expected until 2004 or so?
From the article: Your Desktop PC in 2004: Operating System: Some form of Windows (You were expecting Linux, perhaps?)
Stupid smart-off comment. My desktop PC has Linux now. The big change between now and then will be I quit using the Macintosh next to it. I'm tired of pompous folks telling me Linux isn't ready for my desktop. I'll make that decision, folks.
I'd be curious as to which partisan worldview you think I'm reinforcing. You might ask yourself why I was listening to the conservative talk radio I mentioned.
And, yes, David Koresh was trying to kill my family. But it wasn't personal. He was an equal-opportunity wacko. But he's dead now.
And, finally, the government wasn't trying to kill the Branch Davidians; they were trying to apprehend them.
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Beautiful flash animation, though. I particularly like the fact that clicking the 'skip intro' button does absolutely nothing -- you get the flash garbage anyway.
Makes me glad I didn't read the article before posting. :)
I hereby announce my new rot13 compression method which achieves a 1:1 compression ratio! And as an added bonus, it is legally unbreakable encryption under the DCMA!
Talking is illegal in this country? ;)
How is this either 1) a bad thing
I'll give my answer, but it's from a weird point of view.
As always, I think it comes down to how the laws are applied. And that's where I get really scared for my liberties...
I'm glad you said that; maybe it'll make my weird point of view seem less weird. First of all, I have to say this: in high school history class, when I first heard the example the courts gave of shouting "Fire," in a crowded theater as evidence that you obviously couldn't have no restrictions on speech, I trembled.
Seems to me even many who are practically libertarians still accept this example without question. I just don't like the thought that courts think there are implicit limitations to free speech and that they are the ones to make those limitations explicit.
So, yes, I think it's bad to have to prove your speech true before it can be free. We don't require those Scientology nuts to prove their stuff true.
I'd say it's the minute someone else links to it. That's the way the web was intended in the beginning: the collection of all the documents you could get to "from here." Freenet's sort of the same way right now.
The minute something is linked to by someone else, it can be crawled by google, altavista, and so on.
Interestingly, the first amendment doesn't seem to recognize a difference between public and private. :)
It's rather frightening that things protected by the first amendment can be made illegal. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
It's also kind of frightening that leaflets, newspapers, and megaphones today seem to be legally limited only to large corporations, and the medium with the most promise of letting the average citizen compete on an even footing is being unlawfully restrained in this manner.
"It's not about the First Amendment," says Terry Budd, a lawyer for printCafe, ... . "It's to stop people from spreading vicious lies."
What part of "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" don't you understand?
Randall, you are the man! And as one featured prominently in google's USENET timeline as having made the first post about ROtJ you are doubly the man!
Searching through articles from that time period I really loved the bit about your brother and defender. He's the man, too!
Folks, hats off to a guy who made a "first post" back when first posts meant something.
Keep the Star Wars info coming, and most of all keep hacking Perl! (So, was waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts worth it?)
Wow. The figures I quoted included tuition, fees, everything, except books. Throwing in rent I think it's still significantly less for a Texas resident. I knew we were below national average on our state school costs, but I didn't realize we were that far below.
$40000 for a state university? In Texas, it was around $1500/semester when I started, and around $2000/semester when I finished. We're a little below national average but not that much. I can see that much or more for private schools.
Vancouver-based UFIL Unified Data Technologies, a private company, claims that it owns U.S. patent 5,684,985, a "method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node." The patent was awarded in November 1997.
Didn't we pass a bill to make English the official language of the United States? Wouldn't that make this patent null and void?
Makes me wish I'd voted for that stupid idea...
To quote Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn): "Huck, if a Frenchman is a man, why don't he talk like a man?" (With apologies to French-speaking slashdot readers. :) )
I just don't see what "a method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node" has to do with RDF, but I'm sure the U.S. patent office knows better than me.
You know, some whiners have spent the last few months telling me we're starving the good people of Iraq. I've told them to bug off, that it wasn't our fault the Iraqi government wanted to destroy us and we couldn't afford to waste "aid" that would only wind up in the hands of a corrupt government instead of its people.
Now there's some room for disagreement over it, but I felt like it was reasonable to support the U.S. government's stance because of the way the government of Iraq is. To be blunt, they're evil and untrustworthy. I don't think it makes us evil to say we don't want to support Saddam Hussein.
But we're going to do the same thing to Ukraine --- because they're COPYING CD's?????
Again, as in the case of Sklyarov, I wonder why we feel people in other countries should obey our laws. I don't obey theirs.
I ran GeOS on the Apple IIGs! It was also the first software I ever read the license agreement for. It blew my mind and I was in a bad mood for two days. I couldn't believe they had the audacity to tell me I hadn't bought anything when we gave them money!.
All the same it was a great piece of software.
That's a question I had, as well... isn't one of the big "selling points" about Linux the fact that there aren't branches and forks everywhere?
Good question, and good points. For me, though, one of the big selling points of Linux is that there can be branches and forks. The "right to fork," to me, is what makes free software free and what makes free software better. (That's why I've decided the GNU/Linux vs. Linux debate is all wrong; just call Linux a fork of GNU.)
The thing is, we just have to learn to fork in a civilized manner and not give bad impressions to the outside world. It looks like this is an excellent example of a civilized fork (but I don't read lkml, so there may be same flaming over it; who knows). Along with you, I hope it doesn't give the wrong impression to the outside world.
No, just first season minus the first three episodes. I'll get them when it cycles back around. Currently taping Sailor Moon R (Ail/Ann). This is what's airing Saturdays in the DFW area.
In related news, this machine is named minako.
Hmm, I was going out, but I did just recently finish taping the entire first season of Sailor Moon, except for the first two or three. (DIC dubs, but they're okay.) Been looking for a good time to watch them all in succession.
Even more important to me, I don't think they can prevent you running your own modules. The reason that is important is education: I learned amazing things on my school accounts by compiling perl, fetchmail, etc. and installing them in my home directory. Just think what I could have learned if I could have simulated a whole operating system! (Which you can do by running a "sub-hurd".)
Actually I'm using Grub w/ Linux, too. Works pretty nice. And I'm planning on upgrading my lilo-based system at work to grub the hard way (I've actually recompiled everything from scratch a la Linux From Scratch. Then I want to install grub and upgrade to ext3.)
We should all use Hurd instead of Linux. Linux numbers disk partitions from 1 (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ...), while GRUB, the Hurd bootloader, numbers partitions from 0. As any self-respecting computer scientist knows, it is more proper to index things beginning with 0. Therefore, Hurd is a superior operating system, and we should all immediately switch to Hurd.
How many CIO's and IT Directors are there that have come from the programming pool? Less than 1/2?
Yeah, but maybe if they'd start picking CIO's and IT Directors from that pool they'd have IT organizations that aren't so crummy. I mean, is it too much to ask that my company's IT program be coordinated from the top down by a person who knows what it's about?
Oh, I'm sorry, was I complaining again? :)
anymore than Bush's views on stem-cell research and abortion are representative of all Americans.
You say that like people who share his views should be second class citizens or something. Isn't there any room for disagreement on these somewhat ambiguous issues? Or should everyone who cringes at the thought of killing an unborn child be thrown out of the country?
sqlplus w/ command-line editing? You are the man!
The PDF link is over in the sidebar; I didn't even see it until you mentioned it.
Did anyone besides me wonder why most of these technologies that will change the PC in 2002 aren't expected until 2004 or so?
From the article: Your Desktop PC in 2004: Operating System: Some form of Windows (You were expecting Linux, perhaps?)
Stupid smart-off comment. My desktop PC has Linux now. The big change between now and then will be I quit using the Macintosh next to it. I'm tired of pompous folks telling me Linux isn't ready for my desktop. I'll make that decision, folks.
I'd be curious as to which partisan worldview you think I'm reinforcing. You might ask yourself why I was listening to the conservative talk radio I mentioned.
And, yes, David Koresh was trying to kill my family. But it wasn't personal. He was an equal-opportunity wacko. But he's dead now.
And, finally, the government wasn't trying to kill the Branch Davidians; they were trying to apprehend them.