one would think that they would have some requirement against useless cruft in the patent filing. if they don't they should, then you can deny patents on the basis that the document they submitted was unacceptable.
I don't know, I remember the internet getting really slow on 9/11. most Internet news sites were also down for most of the day due to the load of users. I am not really sure if the internet is prepared for what will happen again if a world event took place. (Aliens landing??, nukes used against Iraq?) who knows if the Internet will cope.
screamers terminator space truckers (so bad) that movie where they mined rock on pluto (so bad i can't remember the name) kim stanley robinson's Ramma series dune, the humans won in that one, but it still bears mention
what happens when a new version of opengl is released? is the ip still licensed from microsoft or is there the possibility that this could be done without microsoft ip. how vital is the microsoft stuff really to opengl?
Getting older artists speaking out against the lables when they have nothing to lose is not going to accomplish anything in the long run. All this type of article does (no matter how well written, and i admit that it is very well done) is to rekindle debate on the issue, and not even among people who matter. Lets face it, if we are discussing this on slashdot then we are not discussing it in Ottawa or Washington. Writting letters to congress or the senate is also worse than useless. Any letter that even sounds like it is fighting for the little person is filed in the "crazy file" and anything comming from national lobby groups are filed in the "wishes of America" file.
I don't think that microsoft is going to care that a bunch of slashdot users won't purchase their OS. They are mostly concerned with the corporate world where a company might like an OS that prevents you from installing any software that is not digitally signed properly (certian peer to peer software for example). additionally schools and government would also like this software for the control that it gives them. schools already treat their students like criminals who just haven't committed crimes yet after all, no more special tweaking with third party software to lock down a lab, just install palladium. Microsoft will definetly make money with this, Linux will increasingly become the OS of choice for freedom, and then if things really get out of hand, just being associated with LInux will brand you a criminal.
This is quite a good laptop. bit of a pig on juice for sure but if they can get the weight down a little more i can see myself purchasing one in a little while.
hahaah a robot with a cr@ck habit!
this is some scary stuff, i wonder what would have happened if the robot had taken someone hostage threatening to infect their PC with Lindows or something.
I think it would be pretty funny. how would they control the ringing. and how would you answer? one click of your teeth to answer and two to hang up? better not be chewing gum while your talking on your phone. this is an impractical device, a better one would be a phone placed on your jawbone so that you could click a switch somewhere to turn it on and off.
Is to do nothing at all. The people who are hacking their Xboxs are voiding any warrenty that they may have had on the machine, and M$ is therefore not out anything if all these hacked xboxs start turning up fried out because of some botched mod job. Just come out with a statement that people who want to watch movies on the xbox can purchase a "special" mod from M$ that lets them do this....and it only costs $19.95! WOW.
I was never a big fan of syllogisms, now i know why:
aristotle was a large man.
large men are fond of syllogisms.
therefore aristotle was fond of syllogisms.
any argument is easy to make with this kind of rationale. i would like to know if there were any cases where the BSA was told to fuck off, and they actually did.
This is the single best application of Linux that i have ever seen. Scrolling poll data would just be so kick to have running. printing netstat data to the poll and being able to scan in those old robot games that used bar codes for mods would be just too cool.
really a good hack.
lets not delude ourselves, we really live in a dictatorship that we get to choose who our dictator is every 4 years.
freedom of expression and speech are not rights that we are entitled to just because we are alive, we get these things becuase our leaders genuinely care about our happiness (most of the time). real criminals are the ones who abuse the freedoms that the gov't has decided to grant us as citizens. These people are the ones who ruin the good things that gov't has given to the rest of us.
However its foolish to believe that if there were no bad people in the world then there would be no problems, life isn't like startrek. as long as there are laws that protect people there will be people who will try and break those laws. its good that the supreme court has decided to uphold the consumer in this ruling, too much favoritism towards the artists and associations that (help?) them.
Well I don't think that its because of any dislike of legleslation that our lawmakers don't make more laws, i think its that they would like to fight among themselves and worry about the next election rather than make landmark rulings about dry stuff like copyright.
Its cool that someone is doing this
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Because if they wern't then we would all be in the dark about these issues.
Is there any company who is making a business of selling custom CD's? It seems that if the RIAA would sell custom CD's for like $4-$8 per disc they would make lots of cash. I haven't done any research on this, but it seems like it could work.
maby others have another view but this makes sense.
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one would think that they would have some requirement against useless cruft in the patent filing. if they don't they should, then you can deny patents on the basis that the document they submitted was unacceptable.
I don't know, I remember the internet getting really slow on 9/11. most Internet news sites were also down for most of the day due to the load of users. I am not really sure if the internet is prepared for what will happen again if a world event took place. (Aliens landing??, nukes used against Iraq?) who knows if the Internet will cope.
screamers
terminator
space truckers (so bad)
that movie where they mined rock on pluto (so bad i can't remember the name)
kim stanley robinson's Ramma series
dune, the humans won in that one, but it still bears mention
so do i win a prize?
what happens when a new version of opengl is released? is the ip still licensed from microsoft or is there the possibility that this could be done without microsoft ip. how vital is the microsoft stuff really to opengl?
Getting older artists speaking out against the lables when they have nothing to lose is not going to accomplish anything in the long run. All this type of article does (no matter how well written, and i admit that it is very well done) is to rekindle debate on the issue, and not even among people who matter. Lets face it, if we are discussing this on slashdot then we are not discussing it in Ottawa or Washington. Writting letters to congress or the senate is also worse than useless. Any letter that even sounds like it is fighting for the little person is filed in the "crazy file" and anything comming from national lobby groups are filed in the "wishes of America" file.
I don't think that microsoft is going to care that a bunch of slashdot users won't purchase their OS. They are mostly concerned with the corporate world where a company might like an OS that prevents you from installing any software that is not digitally signed properly (certian peer to peer software for example). additionally schools and government would also like this software for the control that it gives them. schools already treat their students like criminals who just haven't committed crimes yet after all, no more special tweaking with third party software to lock down a lab, just install palladium. Microsoft will definetly make money with this, Linux will increasingly become the OS of choice for freedom, and then if things really get out of hand, just being associated with LInux will brand you a criminal.
This is quite a good laptop. bit of a pig on juice for sure but if they can get the weight down a little more i can see myself purchasing one in a little while.
hahaah a robot with a cr@ck habit! this is some scary stuff, i wonder what would have happened if the robot had taken someone hostage threatening to infect their PC with Lindows or something.
hey i may be first, but really its good that linux is finally getting preinstall space in major stores.
I think it would be pretty funny. how would they control the ringing. and how would you answer? one click of your teeth to answer and two to hang up? better not be chewing gum while your talking on your phone.
this is an impractical device, a better one would be a phone placed on your jawbone so that you could click a switch somewhere to turn it on and off.
Is to do nothing at all. The people who are hacking their Xboxs are voiding any warrenty that they may have had on the machine, and M$ is therefore not out anything if all these hacked xboxs start turning up fried out because of some botched mod job. Just come out with a statement that people who want to watch movies on the xbox can purchase a "special" mod from M$ that lets them do this....and it only costs $19.95! WOW.
I was never a big fan of syllogisms, now i know why: aristotle was a large man. large men are fond of syllogisms. therefore aristotle was fond of syllogisms. any argument is easy to make with this kind of rationale. i would like to know if there were any cases where the BSA was told to fuck off, and they actually did.
Its basicly just a jumped up baldur's gate.
This is the single best application of Linux that i have ever seen. Scrolling poll data would just be so kick to have running. printing netstat data to the poll and being able to scan in those old robot games that used bar codes for mods would be just too cool. really a good hack.
lets not delude ourselves, we really live in a dictatorship that we get to choose who our dictator is every 4 years. freedom of expression and speech are not rights that we are entitled to just because we are alive, we get these things becuase our leaders genuinely care about our happiness (most of the time). real criminals are the ones who abuse the freedoms that the gov't has decided to grant us as citizens. These people are the ones who ruin the good things that gov't has given to the rest of us. However its foolish to believe that if there were no bad people in the world then there would be no problems, life isn't like startrek. as long as there are laws that protect people there will be people who will try and break those laws. its good that the supreme court has decided to uphold the consumer in this ruling, too much favoritism towards the artists and associations that (help?) them.
Well I don't think that its because of any dislike of legleslation that our lawmakers don't make more laws, i think its that they would like to fight among themselves and worry about the next election rather than make landmark rulings about dry stuff like copyright.
Because if they wern't then we would all be in the dark about these issues.
Is there any company who is making a business of selling custom CD's? It seems that if the RIAA would sell custom CD's for like $4-$8 per disc they would make lots of cash. I haven't done any research on this, but it seems like it could work.
maby others have another view but this makes sense.
april fools jokes are a pain. but at least they keep me from having to do work for a while.