I would think that they must use some interesting logarithms to emulate randomness.
Yeah, you're right... they would be REEEAAAAL interesting logarithms. Now for algorithms, I suspect they have a white noise generator. IBM probably built one in, since they know that one of the main uses for mainframes is massive Monte Carlo simulations.
. I just wish they were a bit more explicit about this so that non-techies won't tell me how they're worried that machines will be watching them and manipulating them ala-HAL all of a sudden.
I'm sorry, sahala, I can't do that. You sound upset, would you like a stress pill?
I'd also like to point out that the Trieste had a porthole, and it went to the bottom of the Marianas trench... Of course, it was a lot smaller porthole.
Except that an intel Linux box is still technically a "PC". Therefore, if I run it on my Linux box and it trashes it, Sony's covered. That's why I specifically said Sun.
Using the shotgun to blast your computer into small pieces is not the normal use of a shotgun. Putting a music CD into a CD player *is* the normal use of a shotgun.
Uh, could you tell me how I could use a shotgun to put a music CD into my CD player, please?:-P
In CA, the PUC already has authority to regulate telcos within the state. Hence, since it's telcos that provide DSL, they have a reasonable claim to that authority, unlike yours to regulate MS.
Even if you don't like him, use him as a second line of defense. This abomination has to be signed to become law...
Write (or fax) to Bush, and tell him to actively oppose this legislation, and to veto it if it gets passed.
Use his biases against him:
"Unwarranted intrusion of government into business"
Supports the "Liberal" Hollywood Elite at the expense of our innovative tech sector
He himself said that "I prefer innovation to litigation".
Even if you don't personally believe these things, remember that he supposedly does. Use his biases to our advantage! The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend!
Because the CBDTPA hasn't been passed yet, there's no way you could have broadband. Nice try. It's obvious that you are surfing less because there's no high quality digital Disney Approved Content on the web for you!
Let the marketplace decide without legislation. Let RIAA and MPAA start to release media only in encrypted form that is playable on one device at one time after the wireless connection is made to verify the users valid VISA card number.
See how many consumers buy those devices and let the market decide
They did. It was called DivX. It failed. Therefore, this time they are buying legislation to make sure that we *have* to buy it.
They're setting up to kill Open Source in the future... not by winning hearts and minds, but by "contaminating" all those students...
MS Lawyer: "What? Product X functions like MS Y.NET? Obviously you had access to our copyrighted source code!"
Open Source Group: "WTF are you talking about?"
MS Lawyer: "Programmer Joe Collegekid over there, he saw our source in his college class. He obviously used it. Stop producing your software, or you'll lose everything you own! Oh, and give it to use, because we own all the copyrights on it!"
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Atmospheric testing has been banned since the early '60s. All testing is/was done underground.
Face it, wars work. Wars are terrible, despicable crimes against humanity, but they work.
Von Clausewitz said it best... "War is an extension of diplomacy by other means".
I would think that they must use some interesting logarithms to emulate randomness.
Yeah, you're right... they would be REEEAAAAL interesting logarithms. Now for algorithms, I suspect they have a white noise generator. IBM probably built one in, since they know that one of the main uses for mainframes is massive Monte Carlo simulations.
. I just wish they were a bit more explicit about this so that non-techies won't tell me how they're worried that machines will be watching them and manipulating them ala-HAL all of a sudden.
I'm sorry, sahala, I can't do that. You sound upset, would you like a stress pill?
No, you should go here for slack.
I always thought it was after "Mandrake the Magician". Since the logo appears to be a magic wand...
450 PSI.
I'd also like to point out that the Trieste had a porthole, and it went to the bottom of the Marianas trench... Of course, it was a lot smaller porthole.
Can it take out an LNG tanker that's set on destroying New York City?
Seriously, I've not read about anyone looking to challange the DMCA in court.
Perhaps you've heard of US v. Elcomsoft?
So much for "We are already complying with the RPFJ, even though those evil states are blocking it".
Except that an intel Linux box is still technically a "PC". Therefore, if I run it on my Linux box and it trashes it, Sony's covered. That's why I specifically said Sun.
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Using the shotgun to blast your computer into small pieces is not the normal use of a shotgun. Putting a music CD into a CD player *is* the normal use of a shotgun.
:-P
Uh, could you tell me how I could use a shotgun to put a music CD into my CD player, please?
So what if I tried to play this on my Sun workstation? Does it say anything about them?
Nice troll.
In CA, the PUC already has authority to regulate telcos within the state. Hence, since it's telcos that provide DSL, they have a reasonable claim to that authority, unlike yours to regulate MS.
Well, they had figures, but the Evil Content Pirates(tm) stole them.
USE BUSH!!!!
Even if you don't like him, use him as a second line of defense. This abomination has to be signed to become law...
Write (or fax) to Bush, and tell him to actively oppose this legislation, and to veto it if it gets passed.
Use his biases against him:
"Unwarranted intrusion of government into business"
Supports the "Liberal" Hollywood Elite at the expense of our innovative tech sector
He himself said that "I prefer innovation to litigation".
Even if you don't personally believe these things, remember that he supposedly does. Use his biases to our advantage! The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend!
Actually, in this particularly rare case, he *IS* serving the interests of his constituents. One of them, anyways. Disney's HQ is in Burbank.
Whoops! My bad. The correct link is here.
Look at Section 2. Findings, subpoints (1) and (9).
What do you mean? You can't have broadband yet! Don't you know that "The lack of high quality digital content continues to hinder consumer adoption of broadband Internet service"? Or that "The secure protection of digital content is a necessary precondition to the dissemination, and on-line availability, of high quality digital content, which will benefit consumers and lead to the rapid growth of broadband networks"?
Because the CBDTPA hasn't been passed yet, there's no way you could have broadband. Nice try. It's obvious that you are surfing less because there's no high quality digital Disney Approved Content on the web for you!
According to Delphion, here's the 20 most recent of the 4426 owned my Microsoft.
US6363499 03/26/2002 Method and system for restoring a computer to its original state after an unsuccessful installation attempt
US6363433 03/26/2002 Method and mechanism for client-side handling of extensions originally written for servers
US6363409 03/26/2002 Automatic client/server translation and execution of non-native applications
US6363404 03/26/2002 Three-dimensional models with markup documents as texture
US6363371 03/26/2002 Identifying essential statistics for query optimization for databases
USD454878 03/26/2002 Advanced game pad
US6360280 03/19/2002 Method and system for accessing shell folder capabilities by an application program
US6360272 03/19/2002 Method and apparatus for maintaining a unified view of multiple mailboxes
US6360230 03/19/2002 Method and system for uniformly accessing multiple directory services
US6360217 03/19/2002 Method and computer program product for calculating event occurrences
US6360214 03/19/2002 Automatic database statistics creation
USD454567 03/19/2002 Game pad
US6356866 03/12/2002 Method for converting a phonetic character string into the text of an Asian language
US6353928 03/05/2002 First run installer
US6353923 03/05/2002 Active debugging environment for debugging mixed-language scripting code
US6353433 03/05/2002 Digitizer interface
US6349343 02/19/2002 System and method for providing interoperability among heterogeneous object systems
US6349295 02/19/2002 Method and apparatus for performing supplemental searches over a network
US6347398 02/12/2002 Automatic software downloading from a computer network
US6345386 02/05/2002 Method and system for advertising applications
Here is a link to Melancholy Elephants.
If we don't offer patent protection for software innovations-- truly deserving ones, I mean
Ah, but there's the rub. What's a "truly deserving" innovation?
Let the marketplace decide without legislation. Let RIAA and MPAA start to release media only in encrypted form that is playable on one device at one time after the wireless connection is made to verify the users valid VISA card number.
See how many consumers buy those devices and let the market decide
They did. It was called DivX. It failed. Therefore, this time they are buying legislation to make sure that we *have* to buy it.
They're setting up to kill Open Source in the future... not by winning hearts and minds, but by "contaminating" all those students...
MS Lawyer: "What? Product X functions like MS Y.NET? Obviously you had access to our copyrighted source code!"
Open Source Group: "WTF are you talking about?"
MS Lawyer: "Programmer Joe Collegekid over there, he saw our source in his college class. He obviously used it. Stop producing your software, or you'll lose everything you own! Oh, and give it to use, because we own all the copyrights on it!"