Every time we venture into the black depths we find many new, interesting creatures. If we calculate how much of the earth is still unexplored and how many new life forms we find every time we venture into one of these areas I'm sure you can see where they get these numbers.
Until we find new means of finding these animals and cataloging them I think that the 25 year estimate is quite optimistic. Why is it that we havent caught or even seen a living giant squid. For myself I find this type of research fasanating.
"They focused on college students because, as a group, they tend to be technologically savvy, have low disposable incomes and often need costly specialized software for technical education classes - all of which seem to add to the appeal of piracy. Chiang and Assane believed if they could get a handle on the scale of the problem among college students, it likely would represent the worst it gets among the general population."
Hey I left school in 98 and I'm still friggin broke! No where near what I was in col but hey broke is broke. And what is this about college students being the worst case. I don't buy that. I know that when we were in college we pirated games and stuff but hell I know people now who will pirate anything just cuz they can get their hands on it.
We put all of our pirated and cracked games on the CS lab computers and would play WarCraft2, Starcraft, Hex, and Duke Nukem. I still remember yelling across the lab at my friends with a giant chicken egg loaded up ready to go. "I'm gonna get you Mutha F***er".
Rigging for a demo is one thing but rigging for testimony in a cout of law is another.
found a couple of sites that explain the law a little more clearly. I hope Maine Law and Vt Law
an excerpt from the VT law. "RULE 3.4 FAIRNESS TO OPPOSING PARTY AND COUNSEL A lawyer shall not:
(a) unlawfully obstruct another party's access to evidence or unlawfully alter, destroy or conceal a document or other material having potential evidentiary value. A lawyer shall not counsel or assist another person to do any such act;
(b) falsify evidence, counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely, or offer an inducement to a witness that is prohibited by law;" followed by "Documents and other items of evidence are often essential to establish a claim or defense. Subject to evidentiary privileges, the right of an opposing party, including the government, to obtain evidence through discovery or subpoena is an important procedural right. The exercise of that right can be frustrated if relevant material is altered, concealed or destroyed. Applicable law in many jurisdictions makes it an offense to destroy material for purpose of impairing its availability in a pending proceeding or one whose commencement can be foreseen. Falsifying evidence is also generally a criminal offense. Paragraph (a) applies to evidentiary material generally, including computerized information."
to note: computerized information!!
If we were in china it would look a little diff. China "Article 306. During the course of criminal procedure, any defender, law agent destroys, falsifies evidence, assist parties concerned in destroying, falsifying evidence, threatening, luring witnesses to contravene facts, change their testimony or make false testimony is to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention; when the circumstances are severe, to not less than three years and not more than seven years of fixed-term imprisonment."
Well if it were anyone besides MS I believe the trial would start new now. Oh well I'm not an expert on these things.
Since by this mans own admission MS has purgered itself in a court of law we can not trust MS to be truethful. So in order for the courts to get the real story they should open up the source for us to "explain" to the court system. Or at least have a non-biased third party look at the code.
Just when I think that MS couldn't get any dumber they go and shot themselves in the foot.
I wish I lived in that golden age of man. Now all I do is MUD and run around the supermarket hacking up people with numbers that are lower than mine in the deli line. Once after I hit a guy with my car his head fell off. I PICKED IT UP AND ATE IT BEFORE IT ROTTED AWAY. I felt better and got XP.
Now we are going to see a slew of lawsuits saying that Transformers, G.I Joe and MMPR are what taught these kids how to behave violently.
"But your honer. I saw Optimus Prime loading and pumping a 12 gauge shotgun. Also G.I Joe had some pretty realistic battle sequences... Whats that? yeah I work till 11pm..and yes I let them do whatever they want.. They have a key to the house yes.. No I couldnt tell you what my kid does after school."
I guess I better start hording all violent cartoons and such before they are pulled.
Steve Griffin StreamCast/Morpheus CEO "This unprovoked attack is being carefully investigated, as it appears that federal laws may have been violated. We are still attempting to discover who would want to eliminate the community of millions of consumers who are using the Morpheus software product to connect with other users around the world."
Because of these attacks there is a new version of Morpheus that you must download in order to use the P2P system. They state in the message that this software was forced to be released early and I can say that the new software isn't what I was expecting. At this point in the P2P lifecycle I don't believe that this is doing any good.
Wheather or not MusicCity is going to press charges against the attacks that rendered software useless this comes at a bad time. Any company that forces another companys software to go belly must be looked at closely.
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When you walk into HQ or Home Depot have you ever asked yourself why are there so many tools that do about the same job? There is always the right tool for the job. This is the same as it is in the programing world. I have heard people in this thread say why use C. Because if its the right tool to get the job done then use it. Don't get so caught up in one language, even a new one, that you make yourself a dino.
A good C book is always a great find. I find myself going through kernel code or drivers or as of late the netsnmp code going hmmm.. I've seen this before but exactly what is going on.
Refrence material is always good..no matter what.
What I would love to see is a thread on what books most coders have found to be the most useful, what they have on there shelves.
I love reading the reviews that say the book is good but not really worth my time.
"Once you submit a paper to a university, it's THEIR paper."
This was true in my time and I know that at most schools it still is. This doesn't stop with papers but all code for classes or for fun if the schools resources were used. I had a friend who sold some code to a company that wanted to use it in one of their products and as soon as the school found out they demanded all money. Same for a code snipit that was going to be published in a book. The school found out and demanded that the school be in the credits not the student.
Schools have you over a barrel when it comes to work done while you are going there.
I live, work and play in a high tech burb. Just outside of Boston but in the tax free state of New Hampshire. When I first moved to this area it was great. Tons of high tech, low rent and tons of people just like me who had just moved into the area. After 4 years I will say that everything has changed. With all the high tech moving in the rent has jumped up 4-800 dollars for a two bedroom and the jump is even higher for a 1 bedroom for some reason.
I guess the moral to this rant is that no matter where you go to after a while its the exact same as where you left. The small town life doesnt remain the small town life for long as soon as the town fathers realize that they can make tons of cash off the tech industry.
I cant wait for the days where a high speed access point and a video phone are all you will need and you can work from anywhere.
I will win all the marbles. No one can beat my dragon eyed marble for supremecy. Go ahead. Show me your prized marble and place it into a life or death comp against me and mine!! I will destroy you! I will make you watch me swallow your prized marble and shite it out. Then I will place it in my bag of looser marbles and show everyone that yours was my sweetest victory yet. ha ha haaaaa. You will all bow befor me.
Run.. Run from me and take your marbles if you value your stinking lives.
Just another example of the man keeping the farmer down. First its GPS. Then its fences around the field. Next comes the little collars that were in that prison movie with Rutger Hauer that we can trigger to blow from space.
While we are on that space theme i would like to say i would like to see a big laser make popcorn out of a whole field of corn almost like that real genious movie. Now that would be cool.
"The content community... has historically feared technology," Vadasz said. Yet every technological breakthrough -- from Thomas Edison's little dog to the invention of home taping and digital devices -- "has proven to be a major growth catalyst for the studios."
THOMAS EDISON INVENTED THE DOG!!! OH MY GOD!
I am at the moment trying to invent something as cool as the dog. I was going to go for a rabit/antelope combo but saw one for sale in the cabellas catalog. Now I think ill just strive for something like a human without any genetic defects. I think I could get a post on/. about it.
Big buisness and the gov dont give one rats ass to as what we think. Who pays the bills? Not us if we just pass the information/code from one machine to another. And this scares them. Little small things that we overlook keep building up into one giant monster that we cant stop. This has happened in other lots of other places over the years.
Who knows maybe soon we will be running fiber from my house to my buds house just so that I can have a network where I dont have to be afraid.
I guess kindergarden got it wrong sharing is not good:)I feel my life getting smaller and smaller..fade to black..
Good reviews like this one are going to make those people who are on the fence take a closer look. The "it just works" comment is going to grab at those who are afraid that the OS is just to hard to config for everyday users.
Some people feel safe with the MS feel, but thats all it is a feel. Now people might feel safe with the MS feel and the raw nut of the OS.
Was actually using it as a word that people recognize and it has a certain meaning to it. even you understood what it was to imply. I dont belive anyone would be as stupid to believe that *nix was a reagan idea.
but with all that said I do not believe it is "complete and utter bullshit". just an opinion. thanks for flaming mine:)
The more big business..even little business adopt the linux, dare i say, paradigm. The more money is going to trickle down to the little guys, read us, to develope more business solutions. Even free software needs money to grow.
I think that it is great news. How many business sheep are going to flock to the, not just for kids anymore, linux solution.
After having friends die of cancer in non-replacable organs or watching babies being born with spinal bifida or even the drunk driver that takes my friends kidney...I don't care if this is fact or fiction.
It gives me hope..
And since i can't demand huge sums of cash for my coding skillz anymore thats all I have:)
If I built these guys the whole world would be in danger.
First they would carry a toxin that would make you look like the Joker. Second they would feed of the life force of all of the living beings that they encountered. Thirdly they would make me so freakin sexy to those of the female gender (human of course). Lastly if i felt realy nasty I would make you all love MS...MUHAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAA. (*pinky to lip*) I'm so evil they would say it EEEEVILE!!
I might also add some cool stuff like cloning ability and a few lasers and maybe a PPG or a BFG. just for SAG's
I do not believe that Phillips is supporting or fighting for the little guys.
when you think about what would happen to the player market if there were all the sudden multiple disk formats that couldn't be played on some players then you are talking about lots of money that Phillips is protecting.
I like the idea that Phillips is taking this stance just because of the secondary effect.
Slashdot Mirror
Every time we venture into the black depths we find many new, interesting creatures. If we calculate how much of the earth is still unexplored and how many new life forms we find every time we venture into one of these areas I'm sure you can see where they get these numbers.
:)
Until we find new means of finding these animals and cataloging them I think that the 25 year estimate is quite optimistic. Why is it that we havent caught or even seen a living giant squid. For myself I find this type of research fasanating.
Sorry for the spelling
"They focused on college students because, as a group, they tend to be technologically savvy, have low disposable incomes and often need costly specialized software for technical education classes - all of which seem to add to the appeal of piracy. Chiang and Assane believed if they could get a handle on the scale of the problem among college students, it likely would represent the worst it gets among the general population."
Hey I left school in 98 and I'm still friggin broke! No where near what I was in col but hey broke is broke. And what is this about college students being the worst case. I don't buy that. I know that when we were in college we pirated games and stuff but hell I know people now who will pirate anything just cuz they can get their hands on it.
We put all of our pirated and cracked games on the CS lab computers and would play WarCraft2, Starcraft, Hex, and Duke Nukem. I still remember yelling across the lab at my friends with a giant chicken egg loaded up ready to go. "I'm gonna get you Mutha F***er".
Ah the days.
Rigging for a demo is one thing but rigging for testimony in a cout of law is another.
found a couple of sites that explain the law a little more clearly. I hope
Maine Law
and Vt Law
an excerpt from the VT law.
"RULE 3.4 FAIRNESS TO OPPOSING PARTY AND COUNSEL
A lawyer shall not:
(a) unlawfully obstruct another party's access to evidence or unlawfully alter, destroy or conceal a document or other material having potential evidentiary value. A lawyer shall not counsel or assist another person to do any such act;
(b) falsify evidence, counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely, or offer an inducement to a witness that is prohibited by law;"
followed by
"Documents and other items of evidence are often essential to establish a claim or defense. Subject to evidentiary privileges, the right of an opposing party, including the government, to obtain evidence through discovery or subpoena is an important procedural right. The exercise of that right can be frustrated if relevant material is altered, concealed or destroyed. Applicable law in many jurisdictions makes it an offense to destroy material for purpose of impairing its availability in a pending proceeding or one whose commencement can be foreseen. Falsifying evidence is also generally a criminal offense. Paragraph (a) applies to evidentiary material generally, including computerized information."
to note: computerized information!!
If we were in china it would look a little diff.
China
"Article 306. During the course of criminal procedure, any defender, law agent destroys, falsifies evidence, assist parties concerned in destroying, falsifying evidence, threatening, luring witnesses to contravene facts, change their testimony or make false testimony is to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention; when the circumstances are severe, to not less than three years and not more than seven years of fixed-term imprisonment."
Well if it were anyone besides MS I believe the trial would start new now.
Oh well I'm not an expert on these things.
Since by this mans own admission MS has purgered itself in a court of law we can not trust MS to be truethful. So in order for the courts to get the real story they should open up the source for us to "explain" to the court system. Or at least have a non-biased third party look at the code.
Just when I think that MS couldn't get any dumber they go and shot themselves in the foot.
I wish I lived in that golden age of man. Now all I do is MUD and run around the supermarket hacking up people with numbers that are lower than mine in the deli line. Once after I hit a guy with my car his head fell off. I PICKED IT UP AND ATE IT BEFORE IT ROTTED AWAY. I felt better and got XP.
Now we are going to see a slew of lawsuits saying that Transformers, G.I Joe and MMPR are what taught these kids how to behave violently.
"But your honer. I saw Optimus Prime loading and pumping a 12 gauge shotgun. Also G.I Joe had some pretty realistic battle sequences... Whats that? yeah I work till 11pm..and yes I let them do whatever they want.. They have a key to the house yes.. No I couldnt tell you what my kid does after school."
I guess I better start hording all violent cartoons and such before they are pulled.
WTF is up with these people.
Steve Griffin StreamCast/Morpheus CEO
"This unprovoked attack is being carefully investigated, as it appears that federal laws may have been violated. We are still attempting to discover who would want to eliminate the community of millions of consumers who are using the Morpheus software product to connect with other users around the world."
Because of these attacks there is a new version of Morpheus that you must download in order to use the P2P system. They state in the message that this software was forced to be released early and I can say that the new software isn't what I was expecting. At this point in the P2P lifecycle I don't believe that this is doing any good.
Wheather or not MusicCity is going to press charges against the attacks that rendered software useless this comes at a bad time. Any company that forces another companys software to go belly must be looked at closely.
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When you walk into HQ or Home Depot have you ever asked yourself why are there so many tools that do about the same job? There is always the right tool for the job. This is the same as it is in the programing world. I have heard people in this thread say why use C. Because if its the right tool to get the job done then use it. Don't get so caught up in one language, even a new one, that you make yourself a dino.
A good C book is always a great find. I find myself going through kernel code or drivers or as of late the netsnmp code going hmmm.. I've seen this before but exactly what is going on.
Refrence material is always good..no matter what.
What I would love to see is a thread on what books most coders have found to be the most useful, what they have on there shelves.
I love reading the reviews that say the book is good but not really worth my time.
"Once you submit a paper to a university, it's THEIR paper."
This was true in my time and I know that at most schools it still is. This doesn't stop with papers but all code for classes or for fun if the schools resources were used. I had a friend who sold some code to a company that wanted to use it in one of their products and as soon as the school found out they demanded all money. Same for a code snipit that was going to be published in a book. The school found out and demanded that the school be in the credits not the student.
Schools have you over a barrel when it comes to work done while you are going there.
I live, work and play in a high tech burb. Just outside of Boston but in the tax free state of New Hampshire. When I first moved to this area it was great. Tons of high tech, low rent and tons of people just like me who had just moved into the area. After 4 years I will say that everything has changed. With all the high tech moving in the rent has jumped up 4-800 dollars for a two bedroom and the jump is even higher for a 1 bedroom for some reason.
I guess the moral to this rant is that no matter where you go to after a while its the exact same as where you left. The small town life doesnt remain the small town life for long as soon as the town fathers realize that they can make tons of cash off the tech industry.
I cant wait for the days where a high speed access point and a video phone are all you will need and you can work from anywhere.
I will win all the marbles. No one can beat my dragon eyed marble for supremecy. Go ahead. Show me your prized marble and place it into a life or death comp against me and mine!! I will destroy you! I will make you watch me swallow your prized marble and shite it out. Then I will place it in my bag of looser marbles and show everyone that yours was my sweetest victory yet. ha ha haaaaa. You will all bow befor me.
Run.. Run from me and take your marbles if you value your stinking lives.
Just another example of the man keeping the farmer down. First its GPS. Then its fences around the field. Next comes the little collars that were in that prison movie with Rutger Hauer that we can trigger to blow from space.
While we are on that space theme i would like to say i would like to see a big laser make popcorn out of a whole field of corn almost like that real genious movie. Now that would be cool.
WAIT!!
Could that be why we are GPS'n the fields?
Mmmmmmmm...popcorn.
"The content community ... has historically feared technology," Vadasz said. Yet every technological breakthrough -- from Thomas Edison's little dog to the invention of home taping and digital devices -- "has proven to be a major growth catalyst for the studios."
/. about it.
.. the dog!!! damn that man was good
THOMAS EDISON INVENTED THE DOG!!!
OH MY GOD!
I am at the moment trying to invent something as cool as the dog. I was going to go for a rabit/antelope combo but saw one for sale in the cabellas catalog. Now I think ill just strive for something like a human without any genetic defects. I think I could get a post on
WOW
Big buisness and the gov dont give one rats ass to as what we think. Who pays the bills? Not us if we just pass the information/code from one machine to another. And this scares them. Little small things that we overlook keep building up into one giant monster that we cant stop. This has happened in other lots of other places over the years.
:)I feel my life getting smaller and smaller..fade to black..
Who knows maybe soon we will be running fiber from my house to my buds house just so that I can have a network where I dont have to be afraid.
I guess kindergarden got it wrong sharing is not good
Good reviews like this one are going to make those people who are on the fence take a closer look. The "it just works" comment is going to grab at those who are afraid that the OS is just to hard to config for everyday users.
Some people feel safe with the MS feel, but thats all it is a feel. Now people might feel safe with the MS feel and the raw nut of the OS.
-- Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
and i am too dumb to reply to the correct post :)
who brought the cool guy?
Was actually using it as a word that people recognize and it has a certain meaning to it. even you understood what it was to imply. I dont belive anyone would be as stupid to believe that *nix was a reagan idea.
:)
but with all that said I do not believe it is "complete and utter bullshit". just an opinion. thanks for flaming mine
The more big business..even little business adopt the linux, dare i say, paradigm. The more money is going to trickle down to the little guys, read us, to develope more business solutions. Even free software needs money to grow.
I think that it is great news. How many business sheep are going to flock to the, not just for kids anymore, linux solution.
actually it isn't.
and it is the number one birth defect.
genetic problems can not be cured with flintstones chewables. Yes some vitamins can reduce the risk for those who are carriers.
After having friends die of cancer in non-replacable organs or watching babies being born with spinal bifida or even the drunk driver that takes my friends kidney...I don't care if this is fact or fiction.
:)
It gives me hope..
And since i can't demand huge sums of cash for my coding skillz anymore thats all I have
If I built these guys the whole world would be in danger.
First they would carry a toxin that would make you look like the Joker. Second they would feed of the life force of all of the living beings that they encountered. Thirdly they would make me so freakin sexy to those of the female gender (human of course). Lastly if i felt realy nasty I would make you all love MS...MUHAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAA. (*pinky to lip*) I'm so evil they would say it EEEEVILE!!
I might also add some cool stuff like cloning ability and a few lasers and maybe a PPG or a BFG. just for SAG's
I do not believe that Phillips is supporting or fighting for the little guys.
when you think about what would happen to the player market if there were all the sudden multiple disk formats that couldn't be played on some players then you are talking about lots of money that Phillips is protecting.
I like the idea that Phillips is taking this stance just because of the secondary effect.