I don't think EC goes far enough in discrediting this analogy. He states its flawed in that DeCSS is more like instructions on how to commit an assassination.
I would go further, DeCSS is more like instructions on how to fire a rifle. Firing a rifle is not in itself an illegal act (at least depending on where you do it), and in fact is a constitutionally protected right.
DeCSS is not instructions on how to pirate or otherwise violate the copyright on a DVD. It is merely instructions on copying the decoded DVD data to another media, what the copier then does is up to his/her own conscience. Since there are valid reasons to perform such a procedure (such as playback on Linux - which arguably is also a protected right, since personal use of the disk presumably is included when you buy it), no implication of performing an illegal act is made simply by publishing (or linking to) the DeCSS code.
After all Men are fom Mars and Women are from Venus. A quick stop by Venus on the way to Mars can be used to help balance out this gender inequity.
While on the topic, I just wanted to encourage more women to get invlolved in Space sciences and science in general. Space is a great equalizer for the sexes since women are typically smaller and weigh less than men, and in a weightless (or low G) environment, any differerences in physical strength become inconsequential.
Whereas electric cars still have a lot of room for growth... lithium ion has still not gotten practical for instance, and NiMH are not used enough because they are too expensive. The flywheel storage solutions are looking promising too... they can be designed to directly replace lead-acid batteries (same form factor, same voltage) yet have a higher power density. And there are fuel cells, but that is not as mature a technology. All of these methods are easy to integrate into an electric car platform.
A Nevada company Power Technology Inc., is currently developing a new type of car battery to replace lead-acid battery. The battery is based on technology from inventor Alvin Snaper and uses a Nickel-Iron/Alkaline electrochemistry adapted from electric cars built by Thomas Edison. You can actually drink the fluid directly from the battery, yet because of improvements in the design, and the lack of lead, it only needs half the space, and a quarter of the weight of traditional car batteries.
Just lastnight I watched the NOVA Episode Warnings from the Ice on PBS. Though they did point out that the speed of the ice melt during the 20th Century is exceptionally high compared to what can be determined from ice core samples, they indicated that it is at least partially due to volcanic activity directly under the Antarctic ice sheet.
I strongly believe that we are in a period of global warming, however, our impact is likely not as significant as geothermal activity, including ash and gases in the atmosphere from other volcanoes. I do feel though, that it is our responsibility to the future generations that we limit any negative impact we do cause to the environment. Critical at the moment is reducing forest destruction since forests are the 'lungs of the planet' removing CO2 and producing O2. (you can help the rainforest by visiting here or here.
It is bizarre that a judge would include in his conclusion statements about the beliefs of plaintiffs and defendants. Isn't the whole point of blind justice that decision is made based on actions, not the personal beliefs of those who act?
The judge indicates that he clearly took into account the intent of 2600 to distribute DeCSS to be used for other than fair use. Also, he cites there posting of links to DeCSS to another example of 2600's intent to get other to not only download DeCSS but to use to rip DVDs for other than fair use.
Intent (ie the belief of the defendant/s) has always been a necessary element of proving a crime has been committed. That is why when you kill someone in an auto accident while obeying the traffic laws, you are not considered to have commited murder or even manslaughter, since you had no intent to kill anyone. (if you were violating other laws then you may be convicted based on extreme negligence, but that is a whole seperate story).
What I fail to understand, is that the judge comes to the conclusion as to the intent of the original author of DeCSS, aparently soley on the basis of MPAA testimony. The author wasn't on trial, but his intent is crucial in finding that the primary purpose of DeCSS was to violate copyright protection, rather than to enable fair-use.
From page 84 of the ruling: "Upon being enjoined from posting DeCSS themselves, defendants encouraged others to "mirror" the information--that is, to post DeCSS--and linked their own web site to mirror sites in order to assist users of defendants' web site in obtaining DeCSS despite the injunction barring defendants from providing it directly. While there is no claim that this activity violated the letter of the preliminary injunction, and it therefore presumably was not contumacious, and while its status under the DMCA was somewhat uncertain, it was a studied effort to defeat the purpose of the preliminary injunction. In consequence, the Court finds that there is a substantial likelihood of future violations absent injunctive relief."
IANAL It seems to be his reasoning regarding linking that it is not just soley providing a link, but the advocacy involved in encouraging people to provide and/or use the mirrors that 2600 then linked to. This exceeds anything that search engines or newspaper websites have done, though SlashDot may be on the borderline.
This again brings up First Ammendment concerns, but encouraging others to commit crimes has been found to not be protected at least in the case where the crime is of a sufficiently serious nature (for example, if you advocate killing an elected official you can be arrested, even if you yourself don't intend to commit the act.) Whether downloading a tool that can potentially be used to pirate films meets this standard is doubtful.
Last week ZDNet Australia ran a story noting complaints from the sight impaired community that the official site for the Games www.olympics.com failed to provide a significant amount of information formatted in ways that can be read by text only (and therefor text-to-speech enabled) browsers. Examples of non-text friendly data include "the sport index, which provides event schedule information for 36 Olympic sports" and the results of competitions, "Something which [a representative for the site] claims will cost AU$4 million and take 368 days to do," according to one of the complainants.
This also means that the site is not meeting guidelines laid out by the WWW Consortium.
The combination of not providing a site meeting the needs of all users, and then censoring what others can report from the Games, means a total blackout of Internet information for these users.
Actually, Novell destroyed WP. They took what was one of the best DOS programs of all time and then proceeded to release ever buggier versions for Windows. Once they had convinced their customers they had no idea how to produce a product for users instead of for system administrators, MS had no problem stealing WP's market share.
Corel jumped in and the first thing they did was issue a patch to WP 6.1 that actually allowed it to run without crashing. The second thing they did was come up with a vision for the product, and a stable document format that hasn't changed since the first Corel version 6.2.
Unfortunately by this time MS had figured out how to leverage its monopoly in desktop OS's to move MS Office into the lead.
Any shareholders want to join me in a class action?
To sue, the resignation would have to be bad for the stock price. I don't think it will be. I expect the stock will dirft up to its historical natural level of about $6us/share, and be a prime merger/takeover candidate at that price. The new big-name alliance to produce an OSS Office suite throws a bit of a spanner in the works but I think the value of the WordPerfect brand alone is worth $5/share, throw in the graphics apps and Linux angle and it should go for as high as $8us.
Corel is scheduled to preview its 'Second Edition' release of Corel Linux OS at LinuxWorld this week (later today actually, since it is already Tuesday where I am). Does the release of the potato today imply that CLOS2 will be potato based?
Also, how will the 2.4 kernel affect CLOS & potato when it comes out later this Autumn?
Knowing that the word is amphora, here are some references to the amphora being used as a unit of measure
Encyclopædia Britannica amphora,
ancient Roman unit of capacity equal to 48 sextarii and equivalent to 25.5 litres (6.7 U.S. gallons). The term amphora was borrowed from the Greeks, who used it to designate a measure equal to about 34 litres (9 gallons).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:Firkin - Used only in John 2:6; the Attic amphora, equivalent to the Hebrew bath (q.v.), a measure for liquids containing about 8 7/8 gallons.
History : Sketches in Jewish Life - Ch. 16 - B On the lintel over the doorway, between two wreaths of Flowers, is carved a Vessel, shaped like a Roman amphora. It so closely resembles the conventional type of the 'Pot of Manna,' as found on coins and in the ruins of the Synagogue at Capernaum, that it doubtless formed...
These seem to document that the term amphora was used to represent a unit of measure, and perhaps a unit of currency going back to biblical times. And so, much the same as we have symbols to represent currency (like $) or measurement (#) you'd have to think the symbol (or a predecessor) is older than 500 years.
I can't tell without actually purchasing one, but by looking up a friend's who I know has copyrighted his, since it has been turned into a book, it seems that ContentVille will let you go through the whole ordering process as if they have it in stock and ready to ship. I'm not going to give them my credit card since they seem to have kind of weak privacy practices (they want your mother's maiden name just to register with the site, yeah right!)
Excerpts from the UMI® Dissertation Abstracts database are being used by Contentville, which, in turn, collects orders for full-text dissertations. Dissertation orders are fulfilled by UMI® Dissertations Publishing, whose mission is to expand scholarly communication and improve access to academic research. All Dissertation Publishing Agreements with authors remain in effect. Dissertation authors retain all rights to their dissertations. All sales will be tracked for royalty payments. All contracted royalties will be paid, per the agreement. The UMI program continues to expand access to research and maintain a permanent archive of scholarly works. Wider distribution of dissertation research is intended to support the international scholarly community.
UMI is a Bell & Howell" company (I think that's the company that makes educational film strips, and slide projectors). All I can find on copyright from UMI, is how they are will to act as your agent in applying for a copyright. (see this) But on a page linked from there, they say:
UMI publishes dissertations and theses only from accredited institutions and only with a signed publishing agreement from each author. We offer free informational packets with comprehensive details about the publishing process and other UMI services, along with the forms to fill out.
So my guess is that only the abstracts have been 'stolen', and that if you haven't signed an agreement your dissertation isn't really available.
My initial search was for symbols names I did know like carat, ampersand, etc. That got me to ISO 8859 - standard for typographical symbols that is the basis for &n symbols used in HTML, and I managed to come up with name "commercial at" that allowed further searching, but as I said it was ultimately unsuccessful.
A couple of years ago I spent a good day trying to track down the name for the symbol in response to a question posed on the radio (I wonder if this team was inspired by the same question) well, anyway I never found an answer and the radio show never addressed the question again.
Now I can let them know that the answer has been found.
One correction to the article though. Amphora is a unit of liquid volume, not weight (as is also indicated in the article since it is a fraction of a barrel). Amphora's were a conical ceramic jug that were used as far back as Roman times, and have been found intact on sunken Roman ships at the bottom of the Mediterranean filled with wine, olive oil, and fish-sauce (my guess is the fish sauce was actually Ceasar dressing B^) ). Since the use of them goes back so far, I wouldn't be surprised if the symbol also goes back further than the 1500's.
The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.
But seriously, they already have mechanical 'noses' that can detect things like drugs in luggage, or the ones at UConn or CaltTech that can diagnose some ailments.
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The summary page sounds pretty positive. Their two criticisms are relatively minor.
- They used their own partition tool and scheme and then complain they got an unexpected out of disk space error (no-one in this age of 40G drives has any business creating 100M partitions and expect to install a whole OS on it)
- CLOS didn't recognize their LAN card. I use the same LAN card and CLOS1.1 didn't have a problem with it. However, the card only marginally supports Linux, in that it uses a Tulip OEM chipset that there is a Linux driver for. The card doesn't claim to be plug-n-play for Linux.
Overall they liked the distro for current Windows users, and conclude: "The Win98 installation living on the same computer has a doubtful future once 'The Sims' has worn out its welcome." Help
How about pacemakers? Now that is device that really want to make sure is crash proof.
It does raise the point though that at some point the differences between a BIOS and a RTOS disapear and the two merge.
Think about Transmeta, the OS is embedded in the CPU. Same for planned system-on-a-chip devices. QNX is another example. If the RTOS only has to boot once, it becomes pointless to run it on top of a BIOS.
What's this thing that SlashDot as for flightless birds that live in the Southern Hemisphere?
I mean, emus aren't even cute and cuddly like penguins. Though according to the Encyclopedia Britannica emu meat tastes like beef, which is curious for a bird, since so many non-birds have meat that tastes like chicken.
The bacteria example is microevlotion, but finches on Galapagos is not. Yes, no one can prove that they evolved from a single parent species, but these species don't exist anywhere else on the planet, and some of the species fill an ecological niche that no other finch species on Earth does. Should we just assume that they got stranded there following the flood? According to the Old Testament, even all the species of birds on the planet were on board Noah's ark, so somehow these 8 species of finches were extirpated from everywhere else on the planet? Meanwhile, a species of finch who has DNA very similar to that of each of these 8 species lives just 1000 miles away on the South American mainland.
When you get a bacterial infection and treat it with antibiotics, there is a chance that a few of these bacteria (the one with greatest resistance to the antibiotic) survive. Those bacteria that have survived reproduce, and their progeny (if you can say that about life forms that reproduce asexually) will also be resistant to the same antibiotics. That bacteria goes on to infect someone else. They take the same antibiotic that was given to you, but it has no effect, so a different class of antibiotics has to be used. Eventually a strain of bacteria remains that is resistant to all known antibiotics, and people infected with it die.
This has happened in our lifetimes. Its not a theory, it can be demonstrated. This is natural selection.
This is what Darwin theorized, based significantly on the variety of species of finches found on the Galapagos islands, all aparently 'evolved' from a common ancestor. Darwin didn't know about DNA, and even today we can only work with an incomplete fossil record, but applying the proven fact of natural selection to what we do know from the fossil record and the similarity of DNA from one species to another that seems to correlate with that record, the most reasonable explanation is over hundreds of millions of years the variety of species on earth today evolved from simpler organisms.
I took a look at Camp Sussex and other than the name of the camp itself, which you think would also cause problems for 1000's of British sites, the only thing I could find that possibly trigger a filter was in the source.
On the main page of the site, there is a picture of 3 girls at the camp, the filename for the picture is girls1.jpg this seems like pretty weak evidence to block the site on though.
There is also the possibility that the server hosting the camp's website also hosts a pr0n site and that the camp is blocked because of its IP address.
My favourites at the time they were released were Cello (developed at Cornell Law School) and Wollongong's Emmisary.
Cello (the first graphical web browser) was impressive in that it emulated a terminal window right in the browser window, so if you clicked on a telnet: URL you'd go right into your shell account.
Emmisary was a revolutionary GUI development that worked much the same way Windows Explorer does with Active Desktop. You could telnet, read newsgroups, email, ftp, or manage local files all from the browser window. Unfortunately Wollongong was bought out by Attachmate for its technology who then abandoned Emissary as a seperate product in the face of MS releasing IE for free.
Another important browser in the development of the web was SlipKnot, that let Windows 3.1 users piggyback on Lynx running through a shell account, in case their ISP didn't provide or charged extra for SLIP/PPP accounts.
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I don't think EC goes far enough in discrediting this analogy. He states its flawed in that DeCSS is more like instructions on how to commit an assassination.
I would go further, DeCSS is more like instructions on how to fire a rifle. Firing a rifle is not in itself an illegal act (at least depending on where you do it), and in fact is a constitutionally protected right.
DeCSS is not instructions on how to pirate or otherwise violate the copyright on a DVD. It is merely instructions on copying the decoded DVD data to another media, what the copier then does is up to his/her own conscience. Since there are valid reasons to perform such a procedure (such as playback on Linux - which arguably is also a protected right, since personal use of the disk presumably is included when you buy it), no implication of performing an illegal act is made simply by publishing (or linking to) the DeCSS code.
After all Men are fom Mars and Women are from Venus. A quick stop by Venus on the way to Mars can be used to help balance out this gender inequity.
While on the topic, I just wanted to encourage more women to get invlolved in Space sciences and science in general. Space is a great equalizer for the sexes since women are typically smaller and weigh less than men, and in a weightless (or low G) environment, any differerences in physical strength become inconsequential.
Whereas electric cars still have a lot of room for growth... lithium ion has still not gotten practical for instance, and NiMH are not used enough because they are too expensive. The flywheel storage solutions are looking promising too... they can be designed to directly replace lead-acid batteries (same form factor, same voltage) yet have a higher power density. And there are fuel cells, but that is not as mature a technology. All of these methods are easy to integrate into an electric car platform.
A Nevada company Power Technology Inc., is currently developing a new type of car battery to replace lead-acid battery. The battery is based on technology from inventor Alvin Snaper and uses a Nickel-Iron/Alkaline electrochemistry adapted from electric cars built by Thomas Edison. You can actually drink the fluid directly from the battery, yet because of improvements in the design, and the lack of lead, it only needs half the space, and a quarter of the weight of traditional car batteries.
Just lastnight I watched the NOVA Episode Warnings from the Ice on PBS. Though they did point out that the speed of the ice melt during the 20th Century is exceptionally high compared to what can be determined from ice core samples, they indicated that it is at least partially due to volcanic activity directly under the Antarctic ice sheet.
I strongly believe that we are in a period of global warming, however, our impact is likely not as significant as geothermal activity, including ash and gases in the atmosphere from other volcanoes. I do feel though, that it is our responsibility to the future generations that we limit any negative impact we do cause to the environment. Critical at the moment is reducing forest destruction since forests are the 'lungs of the planet' removing CO2 and producing O2. (you can help the rainforest by visiting here or here.
The complete transcript of NOVA: Warnings from the Ice is available on the PBS website.
It is bizarre that a judge would include in his conclusion statements about the beliefs of plaintiffs and defendants. Isn't the whole point of blind justice that decision is made based on actions, not the personal beliefs of those who act?
The judge indicates that he clearly took into account the intent of 2600 to distribute DeCSS to be used for other than fair use. Also, he cites there posting of links to DeCSS to another example of 2600's intent to get other to not only download DeCSS but to use to rip DVDs for other than fair use.
Intent (ie the belief of the defendant/s) has always been a necessary element of proving a crime has been committed. That is why when you kill someone in an auto accident while obeying the traffic laws, you are not considered to have commited murder or even manslaughter, since you had no intent to kill anyone. (if you were violating other laws then you may be convicted based on extreme negligence, but that is a whole seperate story).
What I fail to understand, is that the judge comes to the conclusion as to the intent of the original author of DeCSS, aparently soley on the basis of MPAA testimony. The author wasn't on trial, but his intent is crucial in finding that the primary purpose of DeCSS was to violate copyright protection, rather than to enable fair-use.
From page 84 of the ruling:
"Upon being enjoined from posting DeCSS themselves, defendants encouraged others to "mirror" the information--that is, to post DeCSS--and linked their own web site to mirror sites in order to assist users of defendants' web site in obtaining DeCSS despite the injunction barring defendants from providing it directly. While there is no claim that this activity violated the letter of the preliminary injunction, and it therefore presumably was not contumacious, and while its status under the DMCA was somewhat uncertain, it was a studied effort to defeat the purpose of the preliminary injunction. In consequence, the Court finds that there is a substantial likelihood of future violations absent injunctive relief."
IANAL
It seems to be his reasoning regarding linking that it is not just soley providing a link, but the advocacy involved in encouraging people to provide and/or use the mirrors that 2600 then linked to. This exceeds anything that search engines or newspaper websites have done, though SlashDot may be on the borderline.
This again brings up First Ammendment concerns, but encouraging others to commit crimes has been found to not be protected at least in the case where the crime is of a sufficiently serious nature (for example, if you advocate killing an elected official you can be arrested, even if you yourself don't intend to commit the act.) Whether downloading a tool that can potentially be used to pirate films meets this standard is doubtful.
Last week ZDNet Australia ran a story noting complaints from the sight impaired community that the official site for the Games www.olympics.com failed to provide a significant amount of information formatted in ways that can be read by text only (and therefor text-to-speech enabled) browsers. Examples of non-text friendly data include "the sport index, which provides event schedule information for 36 Olympic sports" and the results of competitions, "Something which [a representative for the site] claims will cost AU$4 million and take 368 days to do," according to one of the complainants.
This also means that the site is not meeting guidelines laid out by the WWW Consortium.
The combination of not providing a site meeting the needs of all users, and then censoring what others can report from the Games, means a total blackout of Internet information for these users.
Haven't there been several SlashDot articles on using liquid flourocarbons to cool CPU's?
I wonder if you could do the same thing with one of these artificial blood products?
Before Microsoft destroyed WordPerfect,
Actually, Novell destroyed WP. They took what was one of the best DOS programs of all time and then proceeded to release ever buggier versions for Windows. Once they had convinced their customers they had no idea how to produce a product for users instead of for system administrators, MS had no problem stealing WP's market share.
Corel jumped in and the first thing they did was issue a patch to WP 6.1 that actually allowed it to run without crashing. The second thing they did was come up with a vision for the product, and a stable document format that hasn't changed since the first Corel version 6.2.
Unfortunately by this time MS had figured out how to leverage its monopoly in desktop OS's to move MS Office into the lead.
Any shareholders want to join me in a class action?
To sue, the resignation would have to be bad for the stock price. I don't think it will be. I expect the stock will dirft up to its historical natural level of about $6us/share, and be a prime merger/takeover candidate at that price. The new big-name alliance to produce an OSS Office suite throws a bit of a spanner in the works but I think the value of the WordPerfect brand alone is worth $5/share, throw in the graphics apps and Linux angle and it should go for as high as $8us.
Corel is scheduled to preview its 'Second Edition' release of Corel Linux OS at LinuxWorld this week (later today actually, since it is already Tuesday where I am). Does the release of the potato today imply that CLOS2 will be potato based?
Also, how will the 2.4 kernel affect CLOS & potato when it comes out later this Autumn?
Knowing that the word is amphora, here are some references to the amphora being used as a unit of measure
...
Encyclopædia Britannica
amphora,
ancient Roman unit of capacity equal to 48 sextarii and equivalent to 25.5 litres (6.7 U.S. gallons). The term amphora was borrowed from the Greeks, who used it to designate a measure equal to about 34 litres (9 gallons).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:Firkin - Used only in John 2:6; the Attic amphora, equivalent to the Hebrew bath (q.v.), a measure for liquids containing about 8 7/8 gallons.
History : Sketches in Jewish Life - Ch. 16 - B
On the lintel over the doorway, between two wreaths of Flowers, is carved a Vessel, shaped like a Roman amphora. It so closely resembles the conventional type of the 'Pot of Manna,' as found on coins and in the ruins of the Synagogue at Capernaum, that it doubtless formed
These seem to document that the term amphora was used to represent a unit of measure, and perhaps a unit of currency going back to biblical times. And so, much the same as we have symbols to represent currency (like $) or measurement (#) you'd have to think the symbol (or a predecessor) is older than 500 years.
Hmmmm...
I can't tell without actually purchasing one, but by looking up a friend's who I know has copyrighted his, since it has been turned into a book, it seems that ContentVille will let you go through the whole ordering process as if they have it in stock and ready to ship. I'm not going to give them my credit card since they seem to have kind of weak privacy practices (they want your mother's maiden name just to register with the site, yeah right!)
From http://www.contentville.com/c ontent/dissertations.asp
Where do Contentville's dissertations come from?
Excerpts from the UMI® Dissertation Abstracts database are being used by Contentville, which, in turn, collects orders for full-text dissertations. Dissertation orders are fulfilled by UMI® Dissertations Publishing, whose mission is to expand scholarly communication and improve access to academic research. All Dissertation Publishing Agreements with authors remain in effect. Dissertation authors retain all rights to their dissertations. All sales will be tracked for royalty payments. All contracted royalties will be paid, per the agreement. The UMI program continues to expand access to research and maintain a permanent archive of scholarly works. Wider distribution of dissertation research is intended to support the international scholarly community.
UMI is a Bell & Howell" company (I think that's the company that makes educational film strips, and slide projectors). All I can find on copyright from UMI, is how they are will to act as your agent in applying for a copyright. (see this) But on a page linked from there, they say:
UMI publishes dissertations and theses only from accredited institutions and only with a signed publishing agreement from each author. We offer free informational packets with comprehensive details about the publishing process and other UMI services, along with the forms to fill out.
So my guess is that only the abstracts have been 'stolen', and that if you haven't signed an agreement your dissertation isn't really available.
My initial search was for symbols names I did know like carat, ampersand, etc. That got me to ISO 8859 - standard for typographical symbols that is the basis for &n symbols used in HTML, and I managed to come up with name "commercial at" that allowed further searching, but as I said it was ultimately unsuccessful.
A couple of years ago I spent a good day trying to track down the name for the symbol in response to a question posed on the radio (I wonder if this team was inspired by the same question) well, anyway I never found an answer and the radio show never addressed the question again.
Now I can let them know that the answer has been found.
One correction to the article though. Amphora is a unit of liquid volume, not weight (as is also indicated in the article since it is a fraction of a barrel). Amphora's were a conical ceramic jug that were used as far back as Roman times, and have been found intact on sunken Roman ships at the bottom of the Mediterranean filled with wine, olive oil, and fish-sauce (my guess is the fish sauce was actually Ceasar dressing B^) ). Since the use of them goes back so far, I wouldn't be surprised if the symbol also goes back further than the 1500's.
This was posted by another /. reader in regards to the Classic Browsers Given New Life thread
The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.
But seriously, they already have mechanical 'noses' that can detect things like drugs in luggage, or the ones at UConn or CaltTech that can diagnose some ailments.
Here's LinuxPlanet's Review.
The summary page sounds pretty positive. Their two criticisms are relatively minor.
- They used their own partition tool and scheme and then complain they got an unexpected out of disk space error (no-one in this age of 40G drives has any business creating 100M partitions and expect to install a whole OS on it)
- CLOS didn't recognize their LAN card. I use the same LAN card and CLOS1.1 didn't have a problem with it. However, the card only marginally supports Linux, in that it uses a Tulip OEM chipset that there is a Linux driver for. The card doesn't claim to be plug-n-play for Linux.
Overall they liked the distro for current Windows users, and conclude: "The Win98 installation living on the same computer has a doubtful future once 'The Sims' has worn out its welcome."
Help
What's next, a Linux powered hearing aid?
How about pacemakers? Now that is device that really want to make sure is crash proof.
It does raise the point though that at some point the differences between a BIOS and a RTOS disapear and the two merge.
Think about Transmeta, the OS is embedded in the CPU. Same for planned system-on-a-chip devices. QNX is another example. If the RTOS only has to boot once, it becomes pointless to run it on top of a BIOS.
Help
What's this thing that SlashDot as for flightless birds that live in the Southern Hemisphere?
I mean, emus aren't even cute and cuddly like penguins. Though according to the Encyclopedia Britannica emu meat tastes like beef, which is curious for a bird, since so many non-birds have meat that tastes like chicken.
Help
The bacteria example is microevlotion, but finches on Galapagos is not. Yes, no one can prove that they evolved from a single parent species, but these species don't exist anywhere else on the planet, and some of the species fill an ecological niche that no other finch species on Earth does. Should we just assume that they got stranded there following the flood? According to the Old Testament, even all the species of birds on the planet were on board Noah's ark, so somehow these 8 species of finches were extirpated from everywhere else on the planet? Meanwhile, a species of finch who has DNA very similar to that of each of these 8 species lives just 1000 miles away on the South American mainland.
Help
How about this:
When you get a bacterial infection and treat it with antibiotics, there is a chance that a few of these bacteria (the one with greatest resistance to the antibiotic) survive. Those bacteria that have survived reproduce, and their progeny (if you can say that about life forms that reproduce asexually) will also be resistant to the same antibiotics. That bacteria goes on to infect someone else. They take the same antibiotic that was given to you, but it has no effect, so a different class of antibiotics has to be used. Eventually a strain of bacteria remains that is resistant to all known antibiotics, and people infected with it die.
This has happened in our lifetimes. Its not a theory, it can be demonstrated. This is natural selection.
This is what Darwin theorized, based significantly on the variety of species of finches found on the Galapagos islands, all aparently 'evolved' from a common ancestor. Darwin didn't know about DNA, and even today we can only work with an incomplete fossil record, but applying the proven fact of natural selection to what we do know from the fossil record and the similarity of DNA from one species to another that seems to correlate with that record, the most reasonable explanation is over hundreds of millions of years the variety of species on earth today evolved from simpler organisms.
Help
I took a look at Camp Sussex and other than the name of the camp itself, which you think would also cause problems for 1000's of British sites, the only thing I could find that possibly trigger a filter was in the source.
On the main page of the site, there is a picture of 3 girls at the camp, the filename for the picture is girls1.jpg this seems like pretty weak evidence to block the site on though.
There is also the possibility that the server hosting the camp's website also hosts a pr0n site and that the camp is blocked because of its IP address.
Help
Impressively comprehensive archive.
My favourites at the time they were released were Cello (developed at Cornell Law School) and Wollongong's Emmisary.
Cello (the first graphical web browser) was impressive in that it emulated a terminal window right in the browser window, so if you clicked on a telnet: URL you'd go right into your shell account.
Emmisary was a revolutionary GUI development that worked much the same way Windows Explorer does with Active Desktop. You could telnet, read newsgroups, email, ftp, or manage local files all from the browser window. Unfortunately Wollongong was bought out by Attachmate for its technology who then abandoned Emissary as a seperate product in the face of MS releasing IE for free.
Another important browser in the development of the web was SlipKnot, that let Windows 3.1 users piggyback on Lynx running through a shell account, in case their ISP didn't provide or charged extra for SLIP/PPP accounts.
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