Let's see.
1. I'd like to see a bewolf cluster of these.
2. How long until it runs linux?
3.
I think that covers it all. You may proceed.
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You would not be able to successfully tax illicit drug sales in order to defray the cost of hospital care, and even if you could, you'd be selling it for more than it could be bought on the streets.
I don't know what you're smoking, but you should stop. The street price of illicit drugs is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of production.
Most of the mark up is due to artificial scarcity. If you replace the artificial scarcity with a tax, you could easily cover rehabilitation for as many addicts as you want.
I wholeheartedly agree. However, what the author is putting forth is a worst case scenario.
I don't necessarily agree that it's a plausible scenario. However, in contemplating its plausibility, I've once again run into one of the greatest strenghs of open source.
As a long time martial arts student, I've always wanted something like this (heavily padded) as a sparring partner on which I could practice strikes at full speed and full force.
Obviously, there's still some work to do before these become the perfect sparring partner, but it's a huge step in the right direction...
Well, think of it this way: It sucks when patents are abused like this. However, it happens all the time, and at least this time, it's happening to Microsoft:-)
Absolutely no reason. Compulsory licencing is the only way to approach IP in the modern age.
It would reduce the search for prior patents in the invention process to an actuarial process: Estimate how many patents you are using (rather than infringing), and factor that into the cost of the product. Then let the patent holders track you down for their payments.
So if you delete your cookies, or use a browser such as Opera which automatically gets rid of them after each session it can't really keep track of you.
They don't. I do dozens of searches daily, and I block cookies, and I don't have the counter.
If they go after enough people, those people will probably organize and be able to put together a decent defense, unlike the lone college students they've been harrassing to date.
At the very least, if this happens, the RIAA could be stuck with a significant legal bill...
In the 70's, there was a phenomenon known as, IIRC, the $30,000 coffee mug.
Essentially what happened was Hitachi was offering a much cheaper alternative to one of IBM's mainframe products, and when Hitachi salesman came by to give their bids, they'd give managers a mug with a Hitachi logo on it.
Managers soon discovered that if they had this mug on their desk when the IBM saleman came in, said IBM salesman would lower the price of the competing product by $30,000. Hence the $30,000 coffee mug.
We all know what happened to IBM's market leading position shortly after this. And now Microsoft is on the same path.
In fact, it looks like they're quite desperate. In Ghandi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", we're clearly well into the "they fight you stage".
Anyone else noticed how, in the middles of the "my language is better than your language" flame war this guy was starting, he managed to slip in an editor flamewar by linking to vim?
That any energy harvested from humans could much more easily be harvested by burning the food they eat?
That was my main problem with the Matrix as a hard sci-fi flick. Why bother keeping the humans around? If you can feed them, you can supply yourself with energy much more efficiently by using the food you feed them.
I don't know about you folks, but whenever an agreement is changed, I get a little scared. What did they hide and bury in there?
Me too. However, when a full month is given to accept/decline the changes, along with (really easy) instruction on declining, I tend to relax a little.
Has anybody actually *read* the policy?
No! And I'll tell you why I didn't: IANAL, and as such, I can't understand it in any way that is actually pertinent to litigation.
We live in a state that is owned an run by lawyers. Whatever understanding we mortals may have of legal documents can be twisted to mean exactly the opposite by a skilled lawyer.
I'm not saying I like this state of affairs. I actually hate it more than words can describe, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I just try to live with it and lay low...
If anyone wants to start a second American Revolution to take the country back from the lawyers, I'm game:-).
"But what's happened to Phoenix?" I hear you ask.
0.6 is meant to be released RSN, they're going to announce the new name shortly [mozilla.org], in fact.
Well, actually, according to this page, they've already released 0.7, and its new name is "Camino".
I just upgraded to Mandrake 9.1, so I'm going to be playing with that for the next couple days. After that, Camino 0.7 here I come!
If the user of the phone can turn the tracking features off, it's useless for tracking kids.
If the user of the phone cannot turn the tracking features off, they're just handing "big brother" another tool to track them with.
There is a third alternative: The user of the phone can lock the tracking features on, requiring a code to deactivate it.
That way, parents can lock the tracking on on their kids phones, but disable it on their own phones (or even their kids phones when they don't want the tracking).
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3. is profit!
Don't you readYes, IBM and Lotus. Though I'll grant you most of them don't work out anywhere near that well....
First Real Genius Post: Will this be used to make popcorn in a profs house?
I don't know what you're smoking, but you should stop. The street price of illicit drugs is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of production.
Most of the mark up is due to artificial scarcity. If you replace the artificial scarcity with a tax, you could easily cover rehabilitation for as many addicts as you want.
BSD is dying, and now XFree86 is too. Have fun, trolls!
I wholeheartedly agree. However, what the author is putting forth is a worst case scenario.
I don't necessarily agree that it's a plausible scenario. However, in contemplating its plausibility, I've once again run into one of the greatest strenghs of open source.
As a long time martial arts student, I've always wanted something like this (heavily padded) as a sparring partner on which I could practice strikes at full speed and full force.
Obviously, there's still some work to do before these become the perfect sparring partner, but it's a huge step in the right direction...
Well, think of it this way: It sucks when patents are abused like this. However, it happens all the time, and at least this time, it's happening to Microsoft :-)
Absolutely no reason. Compulsory licencing is the only way to approach IP in the modern age.
It would reduce the search for prior patents in the invention process to an actuarial process: Estimate how many patents you are using (rather than infringing), and factor that into the cost of the product. Then let the patent holders track you down for their payments.
They don't. I do dozens of searches daily, and I block cookies, and I don't have the counter.
I can see how this got modded as funny, but unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in it, too.
So he was a pedophile?
If they go after enough people, those people will probably organize and be able to put together a decent defense, unlike the lone college students they've been harrassing to date.
At the very least, if this happens, the RIAA could be stuck with a significant legal bill...
In the 70's, there was a phenomenon known as, IIRC, the $30,000 coffee mug.
Essentially what happened was Hitachi was offering a much cheaper alternative to one of IBM's mainframe products, and when Hitachi salesman came by to give their bids, they'd give managers a mug with a Hitachi logo on it.Managers soon discovered that if they had this mug on their desk when the IBM saleman came in, said IBM salesman would lower the price of the competing product by $30,000. Hence the $30,000 coffee mug.
We all know what happened to IBM's market leading position shortly after this. And now Microsoft is on the same path.
In fact, it looks like they're quite desperate. In Ghandi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", we're clearly well into the "they fight you stage".
"Then you win" is not far behind...
Anyone else noticed how, in the middles of the "my language is better than your language" flame war this guy was starting, he managed to slip in an editor flamewar by linking to vim?
Truly brilliant!
OK, we all know we can't deal with it completely. How about dealing with it as much as possible?
Much as I hate big government and feel that most laws are bad laws, I would love to see a set of laws in place that would cut my spam in half...
You had to figure SCO's real motive was to get IBM to buy them in order to avoid the lawsuit.
I was really hoping that, rather than do this, IBM would sue SCO into oblivion. It's quite gratifying to see it actually happen.
Woo hoo!
That any energy harvested from humans could much more easily be harvested by burning the food they eat?
That was my main problem with the Matrix as a hard sci-fi flick. Why bother keeping the humans around? If you can feed them, you can supply yourself with energy much more efficiently by using the food you feed them.
Me too. However, when a full month is given to accept/decline the changes, along with (really easy) instruction on declining, I tend to relax a little.
No! And I'll tell you why I didn't: IANAL, and as such, I can't understand it in any way that is actually pertinent to litigation.
We live in a state that is owned an run by lawyers. Whatever understanding we mortals may have of legal documents can be twisted to mean exactly the opposite by a skilled lawyer.
I'm not saying I like this state of affairs. I actually hate it more than words can describe, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I just try to live with it and lay low...
If anyone wants to start a second American Revolution to take the country back from the lawyers, I'm game :-).
Well, actually, according to this page, they've already released 0.7, and its new name is "Camino".
I just upgraded to Mandrake 9.1, so I'm going to be playing with that for the next couple days. After that, Camino 0.7 here I come!
There is a third alternative: The user of the phone can lock the tracking features on, requiring a code to deactivate it.
That way, parents can lock the tracking on on their kids phones, but disable it on their own phones (or even their kids phones when they don't want the tracking).