No, Sun doomed Java by not giving users a darned good enough reason to use Java on the desktop. Flash, ActiveX plugins, and Server Side scripting are what people use instead of Java applets.
BTW, I saw that someone tried to make an Agent USA clone for the PC a while back, but the darn thing is unplayable on modern machines. You're better off with the Atari 8-bit version. Ah memories...
Reporter: A quote from Chris DiBona, the former Slashdot editor...
Butthead: uh...uh huh huh huh...he said "bona."
Beavis: mmm-heeheehee! mmm-BOING-G-G-G-G-G!
Clarification on the enzyme issue.
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Although Rochester won the patent, the competing teams at UCLA and Brigham Young University claim that their work was fundamental.
I don't believe the patent was on the COX-2 enzyme itself, only it's application for medicines to reduce inflamation. If someone found a different use for the enzyme, I don't think the patent would cover it.
Who cares if it was fundemental. They researched it, found it, and claimed "FIRST POST!^H^H^H^H^HPATENT!" It's their right to get a patent for their work. Yes, it would be great if other drug companies could compete and make said drug for cheaper. However, you get into the "chicken and egg" problem of drug companies not doing research because it's not profitable. Besides, the author states that "scientific progress in the last half of the twentieth century owes a greater debt to basic research from academic and publicly-funded scientists and researchers than to corporate research." So why didn't they find it first? Prior art would have killed the patent. The truth is that corporate research provides an important contribution. If it didn't, this wouldn't be an issue.
Not everyone's mom has a Linux expert to clean up their messes. Now go let mommy recompile the kernel in order to update her network card drivers by herself. I can't wait to see her reaction to tens of "RTFM Grandma!" responses she gets from the helpful people in #Linux.
Everything flying around in space is potrentially dangerous. A fleck of paint hit one of the space shuttle's windows once and caused a surprising about of damage. Based on momentum, it was the equivalent of a bowling ball hitting the shuttle at 60 MPH. Yeah, that's definately dangerous.
Mozilla 1.4b?! Microsoft won the browser wars way before Mozilla 1.0 was released. I guess you forgot about the greatest abomination to the browser world? (Well, not counting IE 1.0 through 3.0.) Netscape 4.7x was the reason IE took over. Nobody really cared about "desktop integration." You just installed Netscape and ignored IE. BTW, care to guess which browser, IE 4.0 vs Netscape 4.7x, is more standards compliant? (Note: I said "more," not "is.")
Yes, you are correct. There's nothing wrong with Linux at all.
That's why it's on everyone's desktop. Oh look, there's grandma using
FeltchMail to send pictures of her 8 cats to little Suzy. Oh look, there's
Bob in accounting using ssh to tunnel to his home computer and download mp3s
while he works. Yep, everything is fine the way it is.
Have you ever used WordPerfect 6 or the Windows 3.x versions of Lotus 1-2-3? Yeah, using the undocumented APIs would have made a bit of a speed difference, but those programs were just crap. No magic Microsodt API could of helped those seaming piles of diseased software. WordPerfect and Lotus didn't give a rat's ass about updating their software to work under a WIMP environment. They just wanted to milk their cash cows as long as possible. They had the best selling software and they believed no one would ever replace them. Who was their competition before Microsoft? Apple? A Macintosh with no ability to run their native "IBM PC Compatible" apps? No way.
Actually, one of Zmodem's main speed features that hasn't been mention yet was NOT sending an ACK. The sender would just keep sending blissfully until the receiver reported a checksum error. I suspect people watching their modem lights during a zmodem session realized, "Hey! I can upload and download at the same time!" and thus was the reason for the slew of bi-directional ul/dl protocols that were released.
Knowing the "mess" they're in and fixing it has always been one of their strong suits. When they released Windows 3.x and found lukewarm support by WordPerfect and Lotus, they admitted it and took a course of action to correct it. When they realized they were too late in jumping on the Internet bandwagon, they admitted it and started development on a browser to compete with Netscape. Now, they realize that they are falling behind in the security and "features people need" area and will most certainly strive to correct the situation. So, don't just sit back, point your finger, and laugh; take a good look within the open source world and see what needs fixing.
For example, NAC Geographic Products' address in Toronto would be 8CNB5 Q8Z4R.
Granted, this is only one more digit than a "zip+4" here in the USA, but mixing letters in there is going to be a disaster for the postal service. Their OCR has a hard enough time with decoding zip codes. Now they have to figure out the difference between a Q and a zero. I hope this system is smart enough NOT to implement "O," "S," and "Z" as letters.
Besides, most mail is local. It's like dialing the country code and area code just to order a pizza.
Next stop, My computer will be used as a pr0n server without my knowledge,
and since it will be (semi-)encrypted, I won't even necessarily know about it.
I've got to believe the way this will work is that the users will pay per download and you get the money for it (minus Kaaza's listing fee.) However, why the heck would anyone want to use their bandwidth to allow other people money to download something they've already paid for? If users aren't going to have to pay to download, where's the money comming from? Ads? Sound like a classic 1-2-3 profit scenario to me.
Bic pens?! Hell no. Get some proper pens and always keep your notes in those god-ugly composition notebooks. You know, the kind that have the pages surgically sewn together eliminating any chance of losing an important note. Buy one notbook for every subject. Spiral notebooks can't take the punishment.
If you want your notes in digital format, retype them. It will give you the chance to rethink what you've written in class into a well-thought out set of paragraphs. How many times have you gone back over your notes and asked yourself, "What the hell was I thinking?" Besides, rewriting your notes helps you remember them better. A good idea for classes with closed-book tests.
In the 80's, most sci-fi and fantasy movies needed to use puppets and camera
trics. The puppets were significantly more believable and enjoyable to watch
than most current CG characters. I would take an old starwars puppet over a CG
Jabba anyday.
Let's not get carried away! I think a better example is
Ghostbusters. Listen to the commentary track on the DVD and you'll find
out how ingenious tricks were used to do the effects. For example, the
"frying egg on the countertop scene" was done using no computer
animation; just some basic stuff a magician would do. Nowadays, they'd
animate the whole thing with a cgi egg on a blue screen that would look
completely fake just because no one would bother to figure out how to do it any
other way. Probably the best example of old school effects has to be in
the Wizard of Speed and Time.
In fact, I'd say it's the definitive movie on the subject.
Applications I could run?
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What applications can I run right away if I burn a bunch of these and boot up a few of the machines on my network? Do I have to configure IP addresses? Does it assume I have DHCP installed? Which Linux programs will automatically benefit from the cluster?
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Ardour is a professional-grade, low-latency, multi-track digital hard disk recording and mixing application
Wow, so I can actually record a hard disk with this program? What do I record it on? Another hard disk? Imagining an infinite loop of hard disks...
No, Sun doomed Java by not giving users a darned good enough reason to use Java on the desktop. Flash, ActiveX plugins, and Server Side scripting are what people use instead of Java applets.
BTW, I saw that someone tried to make an Agent USA clone for the PC a while back, but the darn thing is unplayable on modern machines. You're better off with the Atari 8-bit version. Ah memories...
The response time isnâ(TM)t anything to snuff at...
Uh, exactly what kind of porn did you test this monitor with?!
Reporter: A quote from Chris DiBona, the former Slashdot editor... Butthead: uh...uh huh huh huh...he said "bona." Beavis: mmm-heeheehee! mmm-BOING-G-G-G-G-G!
Although Rochester won the patent, the competing teams at UCLA and Brigham Young University claim that their work was fundamental.
I don't believe the patent was on the COX-2 enzyme itself, only it's application for medicines to reduce inflamation. If someone found a different use for the enzyme, I don't think the patent would cover it.
Who cares if it was fundemental. They researched it, found it, and claimed "FIRST POST!^H^H^H^H^HPATENT!" It's their right to get a patent for their work. Yes, it would be great if other drug companies could compete and make said drug for cheaper. However, you get into the "chicken and egg" problem of drug companies not doing research because it's not profitable. Besides, the author states that "scientific progress in the last half of the twentieth century owes a greater debt to basic research from academic and publicly-funded scientists and researchers than to corporate research." So why didn't they find it first? Prior art would have killed the patent. The truth is that corporate research provides an important contribution. If it didn't, this wouldn't be an issue.
Not everyone's mom has a Linux expert to clean up their messes. Now go let mommy recompile the kernel in order to update her network card drivers by herself. I can't wait to see her reaction to tens of "RTFM Grandma!" responses she gets from the helpful people in #Linux.
Everything flying around in space is potrentially dangerous. A fleck of paint hit one of the space shuttle's windows once and caused a surprising about of damage. Based on momentum, it was the equivalent of a bowling ball hitting the shuttle at 60 MPH. Yeah, that's definately dangerous.
Mozilla 1.4b?! Microsoft won the browser wars way before Mozilla 1.0 was released. I guess you forgot about the greatest abomination to the browser world? (Well, not counting IE 1.0 through 3.0.) Netscape 4.7x was the reason IE took over. Nobody really cared about "desktop integration." You just installed Netscape and ignored IE. BTW, care to guess which browser, IE 4.0 vs Netscape 4.7x, is more standards compliant? (Note: I said "more," not "is.")
Yes, you are correct. There's nothing wrong with Linux at all. That's why it's on everyone's desktop. Oh look, there's grandma using FeltchMail to send pictures of her 8 cats to little Suzy. Oh look, there's Bob in accounting using ssh to tunnel to his home computer and download mp3s while he works. Yep, everything is fine the way it is.
Have you ever used WordPerfect 6 or the Windows 3.x versions of Lotus 1-2-3? Yeah, using the undocumented APIs would have made a bit of a speed difference, but those programs were just crap. No magic Microsodt API could of helped those seaming piles of diseased software. WordPerfect and Lotus didn't give a rat's ass about updating their software to work under a WIMP environment. They just wanted to milk their cash cows as long as possible. They had the best selling software and they believed no one would ever replace them. Who was their competition before Microsoft? Apple? A Macintosh with no ability to run their native "IBM PC Compatible" apps? No way.
Nah, the only reason to do an ASCII transfer was to sneakily convert the ASCII art from the Apple BBS to ATASCII for my Atari 800.
Actually, one of Zmodem's main speed features that hasn't been mention yet was NOT sending an ACK. The sender would just keep sending blissfully until the receiver reported a checksum error. I suspect people watching their modem lights during a zmodem session realized, "Hey! I can upload and download at the same time!" and thus was the reason for the slew of bi-directional ul/dl protocols that were released.
Knowing the "mess" they're in and fixing it has always been one of their strong suits. When they released Windows 3.x and found lukewarm support by WordPerfect and Lotus, they admitted it and took a course of action to correct it. When they realized they were too late in jumping on the Internet bandwagon, they admitted it and started development on a browser to compete with Netscape. Now, they realize that they are falling behind in the security and "features people need" area and will most certainly strive to correct the situation. So, don't just sit back, point your finger, and laugh; take a good look within the open source world and see what needs fixing.
Well, I do remember the episode of Fantasy Island where the devil couldn't take some woman's soul because she was pregnant. Does that count, too?
Also, if you ask a judge for an injunction with "DMCA" in it, it will be taken seriously instead of being laughed out of the courtroom.
Wow, those Taiwanese can bootleg anything!
sap|write documents to sap-out:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/sap:\ :if=/usr/local/lib/print-sap-out:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/sap/acct:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :bk:sh:mx#0:
See, that's what I like about Linux. It's so simple to configure. Anyone can use it!
Simple...they made it by stealing IP from SCO! Case closed!
For example, NAC Geographic Products' address in Toronto would be 8CNB5 Q8Z4R.
Granted, this is only one more digit than a "zip+4" here in the USA, but mixing letters in there is going to be a disaster for the postal service. Their OCR has a hard enough time with decoding zip codes. Now they have to figure out the difference between a Q and a zero. I hope this system is smart enough NOT to implement "O," "S," and "Z" as letters.
Besides, most mail is local. It's like dialing the country code and area code just to order a pizza.
Next stop, My computer will be used as a pr0n server without my knowledge, and since it will be (semi-)encrypted, I won't even necessarily know about it.
You just described the freenet project.
I've got to believe the way this will work is that the users will pay per download and you get the money for it (minus Kaaza's listing fee.) However, why the heck would anyone want to use their bandwidth to allow other people money to download something they've already paid for? If users aren't going to have to pay to download, where's the money comming from? Ads? Sound like a classic 1-2-3 profit scenario to me.
Bic pens?! Hell no. Get some proper pens and always keep your notes in those god-ugly composition notebooks. You know, the kind that have the pages surgically sewn together eliminating any chance of losing an important note. Buy one notbook for every subject. Spiral notebooks can't take the punishment.
If you want your notes in digital format, retype them. It will give you the chance to rethink what you've written in class into a well-thought out set of paragraphs. How many times have you gone back over your notes and asked yourself, "What the hell was I thinking?" Besides, rewriting your notes helps you remember them better. A good idea for classes with closed-book tests.
In the 80's, most sci-fi and fantasy movies needed to use puppets and camera trics. The puppets were significantly more believable and enjoyable to watch than most current CG characters. I would take an old starwars puppet over a CG Jabba anyday.
Let's not get carried away! I think a better example is Ghostbusters. Listen to the commentary track on the DVD and you'll find out how ingenious tricks were used to do the effects. For example, the "frying egg on the countertop scene" was done using no computer animation; just some basic stuff a magician would do. Nowadays, they'd animate the whole thing with a cgi egg on a blue screen that would look completely fake just because no one would bother to figure out how to do it any other way. Probably the best example of old school effects has to be in the Wizard of Speed and Time. In fact, I'd say it's the definitive movie on the subject.
What applications can I run right away if I burn a bunch of these and boot up a few of the machines on my network? Do I have to configure IP addresses? Does it assume I have DHCP installed? Which Linux programs will automatically benefit from the cluster?