Actually this is a fantastic idea. If cigarettes were as sold as being as good for you as, say, spinach, no one would smoke. Schoolyard smoking would be about as cool as being a member of the chess club.
Here is an example of another patent that should never have been issued. As a child my neighbor was an ex-pat Canadian EE who was very proud of the busses he put into service in Switzerland just after WW2.
As I remember it a diesel engine powered a generator and spun up a flywheel, which acted as a large battery. Each wheel hub had an electric motor that was used for propulsion and regenerative braking.
I'd say this idea falls into the obvious category.
I'm not a weather guy or climatologist so I can be dismissed as being totally clueless. Nevertheless about 15 years ago, when global warming was beginning to get hot, I had the pleasure of falling in with a bunch of academic climatologists who looked at weather from a very long perspective. Their take on global warming was that the data was thin but that the proponents of global warming didn't really know their science. Their take was as follows: - We are coming out of a small "ice age" - The last optimum was about 1000 AD when Baffin Island could be circumnavigated most of the year - we not that warm yet. - There was a "climatic optimum" about 6000 years BCE where the earth was about 5 degrees warmer on average than now. Equatorial jungles extended up through the Arabian peninsula. - 12000 years BCE was an ice age. - We really don't have enough data to definitively say anything about long term climatic change.
Why are we reporting on things that were talked about on the NANOG mailig list a year ago? See http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/02 08/msg00403.html
The big dig boosted the economy and made it imposable to find a plumber or carpenter willing to work for under $75 an hour. Now all those 40,000 Big Dig workers will be unemployed.
I predict that the real estate bubble here in Eastern Massachusetts will be over soon since all those Big Dig workers will find it imposable to pay for their $500K+ McMansions in the suburbs.
This wonderful old operating system was introduced in 1967. It's still around and still supported as far as I know. It grew out of Project MAX as did Unix and Multix.
Here is one for you http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/courses/admin/patri ot-act-jud-review.htm and another http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/07-15-2002/ vo18no14_suspending.htm
and another http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000709.php and another http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1031034/posts
here is another http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1501.html yet another http://www.talkleft.com/archives/004284.html
Seriously, how much do you need to read to get it. You might well be declaired to be of foreign origin (even if you were born in Cleveland) and you'd never have the right to go before a judge and prove it.
Well so much for Proprietary and Confidential information. I wonder if there are any patents being violated too.
For what its worth I long ago realized that the only contribution Microsoft should have made to unix/linux is the "cls" command to clear the screen. the "clear" command is so... Microsofish. I always make a link between clear and cls on all systems I touch. Can I copyright that?
Then what chance does anyone have at a community college like the one I teach at.
Yesterday I was told that there wasn't enough money to buy the necessary licenses to allow all our students to have an e-mail account. There are 8,000 students.
Does anyone really think that the school needs anything more than a castaway PC running Linux to support this population?
Microsoft has truly brainwashed otherwise intelligent people. I fear for the future of this country.
I score a 1 just for replying. That's a fact. If I take the trouble to collect statistics about scores on Slash dot that is copyrightable information. The act of assembling data is a copyrightable act. After all it takes work to assemble facts. So while no one owns the facts someone can indeed own a collection of facts. Score 1 - interesting... unless someone reads what I just said and comments on it.
I once asked a women in a bar what she did. She said that she worked at DEC in marketing and that she did, "programmatic development that was educative."
I have a Linux box used as a router/mail server etc. When I got suspicious about what my kids were doing up in their room I'd just pop open an ethereal window. It turns out most of the secret stuff was just gossip.
Remember, there are NO secrets on the un-encrypted Internet.
I do not feel the need to apologize for the fact that Western Civilization has been dominant for the past millennia. Most of what we all agree are advancements in the arts and sciences over that period have been from western sources. This takes nothing away from those who contributed in previous millennia nor from those who will contribute in the future.
Of course if I'm a would be new customer I can't e-mail ATT asking to join some plan I('ve heard offered on TV. lets all watch as ATT's market share dwindles even more.
A student of mine just e-mailed me: "I just read the article on invisible hosting, and must say, that in my opinion, it will open up a floodgate of new problems and ideas. I can't wait for somebody to take advantage of utilizing invisible hosting in combination with P2P programs. I'd like to see the RIAA control that one. Ed"
I remember using a macro to tell me who was on IRC. I think that predates anything Microsoft ever had. In fact the first MS Chat program was just an IRC front end.
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Actually this is a fantastic idea. If cigarettes were as sold as being as good for you as, say, spinach, no one would smoke. Schoolyard smoking would be about as cool as being a member of the chess club.
In the spirit of Godel's theorem, I'd be more interested in a proof that Poincare's conjecture cannot be proved.
:)
SG, Adjunct Professor of CS, Middlesex Community College.
Here is an example of another patent that should never have been issued. As a child my neighbor was an ex-pat Canadian EE who was very proud of the busses he put into service in Switzerland just after WW2.
As I remember it a diesel engine powered a generator and spun up a flywheel, which acted as a large battery. Each wheel hub had an electric motor that was used for propulsion and regenerative braking.
I'd say this idea falls into the obvious category.
I'm not a weather guy or climatologist so I can be dismissed as being totally clueless. Nevertheless about 15 years ago, when global warming was beginning to get hot, I had the pleasure of falling in with a bunch of academic climatologists who looked at weather from a very long perspective. Their take on global warming was that the data was thin but that the proponents of global warming didn't really know their science. Their take was as follows:
- We are coming out of a small "ice age"
- The last optimum was about 1000 AD when Baffin Island could be circumnavigated most of the year - we not that warm yet.
- There was a "climatic optimum" about 6000 years BCE where the earth was about 5 degrees warmer on average than now. Equatorial jungles extended up through the Arabian peninsula.
- 12000 years BCE was an ice age.
- We really don't have enough data to definitively say anything about long term climatic change.
Why are we reporting on things that were talked about on the NANOG mailig list a year ago? See http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/02 08/msg00403.html
The big dig boosted the economy and made it imposable to find a plumber or carpenter willing to work for under $75 an hour. Now all those 40,000 Big Dig workers will be unemployed.
I predict that the real estate bubble here in Eastern Massachusetts will be over soon since all those Big Dig workers will find it imposable to pay for their $500K+ McMansions in the suburbs.
Ok s/x/c/g :)
So how come Unix isn't Unic and Lunix isn't Linuc.
You are correct Sir!
They may ... if they are right.
This wonderful old operating system was introduced in 1967. It's still around and still supported as far as I know. It grew out of Project MAX as did Unix and Multix.
Here is one for you http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/courses/admin/patri ot-act-jud-review.htm and another http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/07-15-2002/ vo18no14_suspending.htm
and another http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000709.php and another http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1031034/posts
here is another http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1501.html yet another http://www.talkleft.com/archives/004284.html
Seriously, how much do you need to read to get it. You might well be declaired to be of foreign origin (even if you were born in Cleveland) and you'd never have the right to go before a judge and prove it.
Habius Corpus for one.
Well so much for Proprietary and Confidential information. I wonder if there are any patents being violated too.
... Microsofish. I always make a link between clear and cls on all systems I touch. Can I copyright that?
For what its worth I long ago realized that the only contribution Microsoft should have made to unix/linux is the "cls" command to clear the screen. the "clear" command is so
Then what chance does anyone have at a community college like the one I teach at. Yesterday I was told that there wasn't enough money to buy the necessary licenses to allow all our students to have an e-mail account. There are 8,000 students. Does anyone really think that the school needs anything more than a castaway PC running Linux to support this population? Microsoft has truly brainwashed otherwise intelligent people. I fear for the future of this country.
Didn't these guys go out and spend a couple of hundred grand buying the rights to this software. This wasn't a real cashless startup.
I score a 1 just for replying. That's a fact. If I take the trouble to collect statistics about scores on Slash dot that is copyrightable information. The act of assembling data is a copyrightable act. After all it takes work to assemble facts. So while no one owns the facts someone can indeed own a collection of facts. Score 1 - interesting ... unless someone reads what I just said and comments on it.
I joined the Rotary, Toastmasters, the Masons and even the PTA even though all my kids are in college.
Or the opening of a great porno film. :)
I once asked a women in a bar what she did. She said that she worked at DEC in marketing and that she did, "programmatic development that was educative."
I almost fell off my barstool laughing.
I have a Linux box used as a router/mail server etc. When I got suspicious about what my kids were doing up in their room I'd just pop open an ethereal window. It turns out most of the secret stuff was just gossip. Remember, there are NO secrets on the un-encrypted Internet.
I do not feel the need to apologize for the fact that Western Civilization has been dominant for the past millennia. Most of what we all agree are advancements in the arts and sciences over that period have been from western sources. This takes nothing away from those who contributed in previous millennia nor from those who will contribute in the future.
Of course if I'm a would be new customer I can't e-mail ATT asking to join some plan I('ve heard offered on TV. lets all watch as ATT's market share dwindles even more.
A student of mine just e-mailed me: "I just read the article on invisible hosting, and must say, that in my opinion, it will open up a floodgate of new problems and ideas. I can't wait for somebody to take advantage of utilizing invisible hosting in combination with P2P programs. I'd like to see the RIAA control that one. Ed"
I remember using a macro to tell me who was on IRC. I think that predates anything Microsoft ever had. In fact the first MS Chat program was just an IRC front end.
Is this the first commercial manifestation of GNU Radio? If so, Cool.