I find this could be of some concern too, but it does one well to remember that while the US spent millions on finding an acceptable re-entry coating, the Russians discovered that it required nothing more than a mixture of epoxy and oak sawdust to achieve the same results.
If they are acting outside of the prescribed boundries of the license, then the RIAA is following the only reasonable course of action.
Uh, no. Reasonable action would be for the RIAA to quietly approach them and try to come to an agreement first, before they bring out the Big Guns. If the RIAA keeps up this kind of heavy-handed tactic it will surely start raising some congressional eybrows.
Haven't they heard? Bullying is no longer PC. ---
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Americans don't know what it's like to try and distinguish a culture amongst similar speech patterns.
Its not like America is one monolithic culture, you know. There are countless speech patterns in the numerous regions around the country. A few of the distinctive accents are:
Bostonian, New England, New York,
Southern (including Alabaman, Georgian), Cajun, Mid-Western (the 'neutral' accent), and we shouldn't forget 'Valley Speak' and Ebonics.
In fact, after living in Florida for a few years now, I've noticed a speech pattern distinctive to Miamians.
I meant that if that really is Larry Fullerton's photo with the article, he's changed a lot since I've seen him last. But then, I've lost a bit off the top myself since he's seen me. ---
Well, they specifically said it is a dedicated server. That means that they have leased it, just like you would lease a car. Maintenance, upkeep and system administration is solely the lessors responsibility.
Visit Cobalt's website, subscribe to Cobalt's lists, especially the announce list.
Search the user list archives and discover the unholy number of folks that have been hacked through BIND because they didn't upgrade.
The fact is, they leased it. It is they're responsibility for the upkeep. It would be a different story if they leased web space, but they didn't.
Leasing a dedicated server does not absolve you of system administration, but exactly the opposite!
The rate listed seems perfectly reasonable. Even a little guy could easily afford it up to the 6th year. If he can't make any money from it by then, it was probably a crappy idea anyway. If he is making money then he can milk it quite a few more years.
On the other hand, if Big Corp. makes a butt load off it - good for them, but it'll cost them if they want to get greedy.
Either way, it guarantees that after an acceptable period the idea will eventually end up in public domain where it belongs.
That last one...
Reminds me of an event in the 70's where someone had thrown a brick through the window of a McDonalds establishment. Wrapped around it was a piece of paper with the words "You deserve a Brick today" ---
Here in Florida prepared foods are taxed, others are not. If you buy a pre-made burrito (Taco Belch, grocer deli) - taxed, buy the makings and do it yourself - not taxed. ---
What's been around for almost 20 years is the DOS extended ASCII character set, you know, like "embrace and extend?" It does not include "smart quotes"
Besides, since this is all being displayed in HTML, please indicate where in the HTML standards that "smart quotes" is supported?
rather funny Indeed! I laughed all the way through. Definitely deserved a posting to the front page.
I didn't even bother to check out the videos on the site attached to this story because every page looked the same. I guess its the video thats supposed to be funny, the site is nothing but marketing hype. ---
I don't claim to know much about the topic, but I do remember reading an article back in the 70's. In it were graphs illustrating the spans of Ice Ages vs. Temperate Ages. It was rather enlightening in that the temperate periods were relatively short lived.
If on a linear time scale you compared an Ice Age to a meter, a Temperate Age lasted only about a centimeter.
Its got to make you wonder about the whole argument today.
The question imbodied in the article was "were we headed for an Ice Age or not?" The conclusion was "We don't know. But what we do know is that Mother Nature is going to kick us around a lot more that she has in the last few hundred years."
I freely submitted to their database many of my "offbeat" CD titles a few years ago thinking this was a cool idea. Last I checked, those submissions are still there. Now the assholes want to charge for information they sucked from the community?
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I find this could be of some concern too, but it does one well to remember that while the US spent millions on finding an acceptable re-entry coating, the Russians discovered that it required nothing more than a mixture of epoxy and oak sawdust to achieve the same results.
Sometimes simpler is better.
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If they are acting outside of the prescribed boundries of the license, then the RIAA is following the only reasonable course of action.
Uh, no. Reasonable action would be for the RIAA to quietly approach them and try to come to an agreement first, before they bring out the Big Guns. If the RIAA keeps up this kind of heavy-handed tactic it will surely start raising some congressional eybrows.
Haven't they heard? Bullying is no longer PC.
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Americans don't know what it's like to try and distinguish a culture amongst similar speech patterns.
Its not like America is one monolithic culture, you know. There are countless speech patterns in the numerous regions around the country. A few of the distinctive accents are:
Bostonian, New England, New York, Southern (including Alabaman, Georgian), Cajun, Mid-Western (the 'neutral' accent), and we shouldn't forget 'Valley Speak' and Ebonics.
In fact, after living in Florida for a few years now, I've noticed a speech pattern distinctive to Miamians.
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Must be different. I'm talking about Andre
I meant that if that really is Larry Fullerton's photo with the article, he's changed a lot since I've seen him last. But then, I've lost a bit off the top myself since he's seen me.
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If that really is Larry, he's lost some hair since the last I saw him. And grown a beard.
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Once again Slashdot has missed the boat.
Actually, it was posted here before.
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Well, my previous post has an error too!
:o
Should be "Doesn't it suck.."
Oh, to correct your correction, it actually should have been "It is their responsibility..."
Its Beer Ti^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSaturday, what can I say?
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Doesn't really suck when, even after proofing your message, you don't catch the mistake until after you post. And to do it in bold, no less :(
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Yeah, yeah. I saw that right after I posted it. I just had to bold it too :(
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Well, they specifically said it is a dedicated server. That means that they have leased it, just like you would lease a car. Maintenance, upkeep and system administration is solely the lessors responsibility.
Visit Cobalt's website, subscribe to Cobalt's lists, especially the announce list.
Search the user list archives and discover the unholy number of folks that have been hacked through BIND because they didn't upgrade.
The fact is, they leased it. It is they're responsibility for the upkeep. It would be a different story if they leased web space, but they didn't.
Leasing a dedicated server does not absolve you of system administration, but exactly the opposite!
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Your idea sounds a bit like the Cauzin SoftStrip that made a splash, then tanked in the mid 80s.
I still own one.
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The rate listed seems perfectly reasonable. Even a little guy could easily afford it up to the 6th year. If he can't make any money from it by then, it was probably a crappy idea anyway. If he is making money then he can milk it quite a few more years.
On the other hand, if Big Corp. makes a butt load off it - good for them, but it'll cost them if they want to get greedy.
Either way, it guarantees that after an acceptable period the idea will eventually end up in public domain where it belongs.
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"Great ! Does that mean I can change its source and recompile it ?"
No because the universe isn't code
Well, we'll just have to reverse engineer it then.
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That last one...
Reminds me of an event in the 70's where someone had thrown a brick through the window of a McDonalds establishment. Wrapped around it was a piece of paper with the words "You deserve a Brick today"
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Here in Florida prepared foods are taxed, others are not. If you buy a pre-made burrito (Taco Belch, grocer deli) - taxed, buy the makings and do it yourself - not taxed.
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What's been around for almost 20 years is the DOS extended ASCII character set, you know, like "embrace and extend?" It does not include "smart quotes"
Besides, since this is all being displayed in HTML, please indicate where in the HTML standards that "smart quotes" is supported?
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I vote for one and only one really good joke. This endless stream of lame attempts is really getting boring.
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Word's smart quotes aren't bad. Proudly displaying to the public that your inferior Linux software can't handle them, otoh, is quite pathetic.
More likely a proud display to the public that Microsoft is incapable of conforming to standards.
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rather funny Indeed! I laughed all the way through. Definitely deserved a posting to the front page.
I didn't even bother to check out the videos on the site attached to this story because every page looked the same. I guess its the video thats supposed to be funny, the site is nothing but marketing hype.
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voxel = volume element = one pint in 3D
So thats what they've been serving me at the pub!
Barkeep, A round of voxels!
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I don't claim to know much about the topic, but I do remember reading an article back in the 70's. In it were graphs illustrating the spans of Ice Ages vs. Temperate Ages. It was rather enlightening in that the temperate periods were relatively short lived.
If on a linear time scale you compared an Ice Age to a meter, a Temperate Age lasted only about a centimeter.
Its got to make you wonder about the whole argument today.
The question imbodied in the article was "were we headed for an Ice Age or not?" The conclusion was "We don't know. But what we do know is that Mother Nature is going to kick us around a lot more that she has in the last few hundred years."
The only sluggishness I ever experience with VNC is when one or both computers are running Windows.
Using VNC in an X to X configuration is extremely fast, even on a 10M lan.
I was quite surprised the first time I saw a fast moving screensaver on the remote bax being updated locally in near realtime.
I freely submitted to their database many of my "offbeat" CD titles a few years ago thinking this was a cool idea. Last I checked, those submissions are still there. Now the assholes want to charge for information they sucked from the community?
Dipshits!
...would have been a better title for at least the alliteration, besides being appropriately descriptive.
Somebody set us up the website