IANATH, and I don't mean to be ignorant, but in cases 3) and 5), isn't it the Law that the companies that are doing the cutting MUST replant the trees they remove, and aren't they constrained to do the removal and replanting in such a way that they DON'T destroy the surrounding ecosystems?
I got mine at walmart.com, CHEAP (like about $15 WITH shipping!).
I stuck all the novels on my palm's 64 meg SD card, and can read them at leisure either on my PC or the palm.
It's REALLY nice that they included ALL the novels in the CD rom in the back of the book (but I'll probably savor reading the War hardcopy first before the electronic copy).
TELL me they didn't orchestrate that themselves...
"We need something to fight that stupid Apple campaign. Hey! Let's turn the tables on them! Call that PR firm and tell them to make a 'I switched from Apple to XP because...' campaign!"
They're just making a scapegoat to hide the fact that their ad was so STUPID they wanted to blame somebody ELSE for it! That ad was LOADED with crappy Microsoft phrasing.
It's quite simple: Palladium can kill OS by preventing access to core processor and system functionality if the software doesn't have some means to be recognized by the system.
Now, who would hand out those keys? Microsoft! It's their idea.
I don't think this will pass DoJ rules and regulations, but with the Congress going nuts over protecting copyright and such, I can believe they would favor groups like the RIAA and Microsoft in agressively denying key information to OS software writers, and so you can kiss running Linux and *BSD on those new machines.
I'm in total agreement that we've done nothing to justify the death of the 3,000 civilians. That's terrorism. As for the Pentagon attacks -- those are possibly "justified" in a war as being a military target. And the Capitol Building as well, or even the White House. If they're declaring war, it's the military targets they should be attacking.
But to kill civilians intentionally is cowardice.
In fact, and do *NOT* take this the wrong way... I would not have counted an attack on the Capitol as much wrong as I do the attacks on the WTC. You could justify *that* as being an attack on the "evils" of the U.S. Government, which I'm sure MOST people would agree has not (and is not) always acting on behalf of its citizens. (We get the gov't we elect, not the one we want; and too few of us are minding the store!)
In either case, though, how can you EVER justify the use of using civilian, commercial airlines with 100's of civilians as WEAPONS?? If they'd went out and bought their own airliners and then flown THOSE over in suicide attacks against military targets -- then I'd say they were aiming at starting a real war. Tragic as it would have been, it would have been "military" action against military targets (but very well disguised).
I'm not naive nor blind enough to know that the U.S. Gov't, in the name of and on behalf of its citizens, hasn't always conducted itself in the best interests of those citizens, and has not always been the best "citizen" of the world in some regards. But let's also not discount the many times in the past that the U.S., either in the form of its federal government or its private citizens, has done more to aid suffering and poverty than most of the self-righteous, sanctimonious and holier-than-thou European nations put together.
And to the British citizen who's living in France: be GLAD the U.S. was there back in WW II to save both countryies; otherwise you'd ALL be speaking GERMAN all the time.
Well, head down to your local discount software house and start stocking up on your favorite [cough cough gasp gasp] Windows applications. Get enough to last for a while.
Depends on what you mean by "embedded." I've been doing a lot of embedded work on PowerPC's, and the 60x-based ones all have FPU's. Also depends on what you mean by "tiny."
I went through something similar. The guy in charge wasn't pulling his weight, and because of it, I ended up working really long hours while he "caught up" to what I'd already done. I was outta there.
Tell the owner what he can do with his long hours and go work somewhere else.
During those 3 and 4 day "work days", where we slept under the desks for a couple of hours, our code sucked. Well, mine was mostly done; his sucked because it didn't meet the requirements he'd given me for my side of things, and his stuff was supposed to feed mine.
They didn't tell us, but I'm guessing that their NEXT invention is going to be some kind of "photon storage unit."
Maybe they could trap them in those vapors like those folks at Harvard, who managed to trap photons for a while... like in this earlier story here on/.
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Go away.
This is a story with significant economical and scientific impact.
Maybe it should have been filed under "Science" and not a front page story, but nonetheless it's got significance.
WHEN are the fools that work in the US PTO going to wake up and actually start researching patents for prior art?!?!?! This is absolutely ridiculous! What can be done? Mass email flooding of the PTO office with a recorded.wav or.mp3 file of some crazy laughter?
a) Pink Floyd's "The Wall?" That was messed up enough on the "big" screen; I can only IMAGINE what it would be like to be wasted and seeing that on an IMAX screen.
b) I always liked "Battlestar Galactica" but I don't think it was ever a full screen movie, was it?
c) Indiana Jones was probably already mentioned.
d) Titanic, while predictable, would probably be pretty cool blown up 3-4 times.
e) "The Fast and the Furious" would be REALLY cool big AND loud.
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IIRC Microsoft has wording in their EULA that you may not post reviews of their "software" without prior permission.
Good post. You raise some pretty good points.
IANATH, and I don't mean to be ignorant, but in cases 3) and 5), isn't it the Law that the companies that are doing the cutting MUST replant the trees they remove, and aren't they constrained to do the removal and replanting in such a way that they DON'T destroy the surrounding ecosystems?
I got mine at walmart.com, CHEAP (like about $15 WITH shipping!).
I stuck all the novels on my palm's 64 meg SD card, and can read them at leisure either on my PC or the palm.
It's REALLY nice that they included ALL the novels in the CD rom in the back of the book (but I'll probably savor reading the War hardcopy first before the electronic copy).
Good stuff, Maynard!
Heh... maybe Archer Daniels Midland? :)
Why would they want to do this?
Wow, there's 59 comments already and I can still access their page!! :-)
On a somewhat related note, my Dad simply writes on the outside of the AOL disk mailer:
"REFUSED DELIVERY - PLEASE REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST"
AFAIK he has yet to receive another disk from AOL (he was getting several a *month* at one time).
He's also dramatically cut down on the number of amount of other junk mail he gets.
TELL me they didn't orchestrate that themselves...
"We need something to fight that stupid Apple campaign. Hey! Let's turn the tables on them! Call that PR firm and tell them to make a 'I switched from Apple to XP because...' campaign!"
They're just making a scapegoat to hide the fact that their ad was so STUPID they wanted to blame somebody ELSE for it! That ad was LOADED with crappy Microsoft phrasing.
The end of the article said, "A spokeswoman from Apple Computer would not comment."
:)
That's probably because she hasn't been able to stop laughing!
Bernie Shifman. What a moron!
is that she is from California. Isn't this going to make her enemies in Hollywood with all the liberals there? Isn't she shooting herself in the foot?
It's quite simple: Palladium can kill OS by preventing access to core processor and system functionality if the software doesn't have some means to be recognized by the system.
Now, who would hand out those keys? Microsoft! It's their idea.
I don't think this will pass DoJ rules and regulations, but with the Congress going nuts over protecting copyright and such, I can believe they would favor groups like the RIAA and Microsoft in agressively denying key information to OS software writers, and so you can kiss running Linux and *BSD on those new machines.
I'm in total agreement that we've done nothing to justify the death of the 3,000 civilians. That's terrorism. As for the Pentagon attacks -- those are possibly "justified" in a war as being a military target. And the Capitol Building as well, or even the White House. If they're declaring war, it's the military targets they should be attacking.
But to kill civilians intentionally is cowardice.
In fact, and do *NOT* take this the wrong way... I would not have counted an attack on the Capitol as much wrong as I do the attacks on the WTC. You could justify *that* as being an attack on the "evils" of the U.S. Government, which I'm sure MOST people would agree has not (and is not) always acting on behalf of its citizens. (We get the gov't we elect, not the one we want; and too few of us are minding the store!)
In either case, though, how can you EVER justify the use of using civilian, commercial airlines with 100's of civilians as WEAPONS?? If they'd went out and bought their own airliners and then flown THOSE over in suicide attacks against military targets -- then I'd say they were aiming at starting a real war. Tragic as it would have been, it would have been "military" action against military targets (but very well disguised).
I'm not naive nor blind enough to know that the U.S. Gov't, in the name of and on behalf of its citizens, hasn't always conducted itself in the best interests of those citizens, and has not always been the best "citizen" of the world in some regards. But let's also not discount the many times in the past that the U.S., either in the form of its federal government or its private citizens, has done more to aid suffering and poverty than most of the self-righteous, sanctimonious and holier-than-thou European nations put together.
And to the British citizen who's living in France: be GLAD the U.S. was there back in WW II to save both countryies; otherwise you'd ALL be speaking GERMAN all the time.
McCain (RM-AZ) was a POW in Vietnam.
Well, head down to your local discount software house and start stocking up on your favorite [cough cough gasp gasp] Windows applications. Get enough to last for a while.
:)
*OR* just switch over to Linux
Depends on what you mean by "embedded." I've been doing a lot of embedded work on PowerPC's, and the 60x-based ones all have FPU's. Also depends on what you mean by "tiny."
I went through something similar. The guy in charge wasn't pulling his weight, and because of it, I ended up working really long hours while he "caught up" to what I'd already done. I was outta there.
Tell the owner what he can do with his long hours and go work somewhere else.
During those 3 and 4 day "work days", where we slept under the desks for a couple of hours, our code sucked. Well, mine was mostly done; his sucked because it didn't meet the requirements he'd given me for my side of things, and his stuff was supposed to feed mine.
Nonsense.
So how do you get out?
Is proof required from you that you're not a danger to yourself or others, or is it the doctors' whim?
And can they hospitalize foreigners, too?
They didn't tell us, but I'm guessing that their NEXT invention is going to be some kind of "photon storage unit."
/.
Maybe they could trap them in those vapors like those folks at Harvard, who managed to trap photons for a while... like in this earlier story here on
Go away.
This is a story with significant economical and scientific impact.
Maybe it should have been filed under "Science" and not a front page story, but nonetheless it's got significance.
Unlike *your* post...
Whoever mod'ed this as a troll needs to get out into the real world for a while... Mod'ing this as a troll is just plain *wrong*.
Your point is interesting, but there's not enough probability behind it.
a) you claim that spammers will start changing how they misspell things; they'd have to know what was in your filter. Probability: 0.
b) you imply that spammers have brains enough to figure out how to do this. Probability: 0.
c) you imply that the spammer have enough brains to know exactly WHICH words to keep misspelling. Probability: 0.
See, it just doesn't add up!
When 3.0 first came out, someone completely busted parts of the PowerPC (R6000) backend (IIRC).
Has anyone used anything newer than 3.0 for cross-compiling to PowerPC (kernel or not)?
Yes, but did the new one boot and run for at least as long as the old one?
It may be smaller because they left out a bunch of instructions that were necessary...
WHEN are the fools that work in the US PTO going to wake up and actually start researching patents for prior art?!?!?! This is absolutely ridiculous! What can be done? Mass email flooding of the PTO office with a recorded .wav or .mp3 file of some crazy laughter?
Any suggestions?
How about:
a) Pink Floyd's "The Wall?" That was messed up enough on the "big" screen; I can only IMAGINE what it would be like to be wasted and seeing that on an IMAX screen.
b) I always liked "Battlestar Galactica" but I don't think it was ever a full screen movie, was it?
c) Indiana Jones was probably already mentioned.
d) Titanic, while predictable, would probably be pretty cool blown up 3-4 times.
e) "The Fast and the Furious" would be REALLY cool big AND loud.
My $0.02 worth.