So, let me get this straight... The slashdot crowd bitches and moans when MicroSoft acts like a Monopoly, but they also bitch and moan when MicroSoft acts like a competitor?
I don't get it.. what's the problem with getting competitive on price in the face of opposition from a fierce competitor?
You have a good point. It is a big gray area because what will have to be determined in court is whether people viewing the parody interpret it as a parody of the song or of the election. In any case, it should be interesting.
I think they would be safe if they were making a parody of the song itself - but they are using the song to parody something unrelated - so I think they will not have protection under the parody statute...
"were you truant, out sick, or brain-dead, during that week in elementary school when they taught you about the American War Of Independence, about the Bill Of Rights, and about the reasons they came about? What part of the Fourth Amendment don't you understand?"
I've never heard of any of these. Does all of this have something to do with the Internet?
He certainly is - and I have a whole house full of glued-together sawdust, woodglue, and undecipherable pictoral instruction manuals to show for it..
Some IKEA furniture is so cheap, the veneer isn't even veneer, but a vinyl sticker stuck to the particleboard! (The lillehammer bed is but one example)
Gates got rich monopolistically. Ingvar Kamprad got rich by gluing together a bunch of sawdust and selling it at a huge profit - and by shoving labor-intensive tasks like assembly to the customer, because we all know that labor is the biggest cost of doing business.
So, what invariably causes death is that something happens to the body that places it under stress. When the body realizes it can't go on, the heart fails and the body dies...
So what happens to people suffering from disease that won't be able to die? The heart will just keep going and going, keeping them alive unless maybe their lungs fill up with fluid... I don't know that this would actually happen, but if someone lives so long on one of these things that their quality of life is shit, what do you do then?
I suppose they could commit suicide, but many religions forbid it, and it is even against the law in some states.
I want a phone... just a phone.. I don't want a gameboy... or camera.. or PDA... I don't care about whether or not I can surf the internet from my phone. Quite frankly, I don't see what that is so "cool" in so many peoples' opinions. I tried it once - surfing the web on this little tiny screen - just a bunch of text links that I could barely even read - and don't get me started on the keypad interface and trying to type. GAH! Why "texting" is so cool escapes me, as well as how nouns somehow become verbs. Just give me a goddamn phone. I hope I never lose the one I have because before long, all you will be able to buy is a swiss army phone with phone, camera, gameboy, wifi, PDA, can opener, fish scaler, paint scraper, laser tissue zapper, garage door opener, toilet paper dispenser, and sharpie all built in.. .
Mike Straka would call that guy an ImportTant (pronounced im-por-TANT)... Read the StrakaLogue on foxnews.com - it would be a great place to vent your frustrations with these Obliviots and ImporTants..
My employer has offices in several Indian cities. Not only is our high level work going over there, but the company actually brings them here on L-1 visas, pays them $10/hr to do our $70k/yr jobs, forces us to train them, and will not under any circumstances hire anyone in the US to fill vacancies before exhausting every L-1 or H1-B loophole they can find - and if they DO hire an American, it's a temp job w/o bennies or vacation or anything. Here's the kicker - if they end up contracting an American, that person is always someone of Indian descent that can speak the language - so they can communicate with all of the L-1 folks. Nice, eh?
I recently purchased an 8-way Serial ATA raid card from 3Ware, with 8 160GB serial ATA hard disks. I have this habit of recording things like the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia and storing them on my server to watch while on the trainer in the winter time. Anyhoo, it's only a couple of months old (bought it right before this year's Tour), but it seems rock solid so far. 1120GB or so total space. I can't afford a backup solution that size, so I'm really just wingin' it - but it's still safer than JBOD. Total cost was in the $1300 ballpark, which isn't bad considering it is shared among 3 houses in my neighborhood.
A few years ago, I had purchased a laptop for my then-girlfriend's sister to use at college. She was by all definitions of the word, a laptop abuser. A scant 3 months after she went to school, I saw her at Christmas break and the laptop was covered in scratches and stickers - decorated nicely. A few months later, I get a call from her that her laptop wasn't working. After a few minutes of cursory diagnosis over the phone led to the conclusion that the power supply was no good. It wasn't charging the battery and the "plugged-in" LED wasn't turning on. So, I had her call the manufacturer for a warranty replacement. A couple of weeks go by and she gets the new power supply. No good. The laptop still won't turn on. What she had failed to mention to me is that she had knocked the laptop off of her desk, crashing it into the floor from 3 feet.
My first words were "Ship me the laptop." Sure enough, she had broken the DC connector off of the motherboard. Now, I know most of you slashdotters can guess at how complicated it is to take apart a laptop - and by complicated I mean TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS, I WOULD RATHER HAVE MY FINGERNAILS REMOVED. After an hour of removing what seemed like 200 access screws, I dug the motherboard out of the case. Of course it was a proprietary DC connector, but at least it had a standard landing pattern.
I soldered a new DC jack onto the motherboard and replaced the plug on the power supply with the proper mate. I re-assembled the laptop (only had a few screws left over) and shipped it back to her. She called to thank me for fixing it and to say how grateful she was that she didn't lose her music collection...
About a week later, she calls again... "You're going to hate me," she said... I sighed, knowing what she was about to tell me. "What happened now?" I asked. She went off on a long-winded story that ultimately had her at Starbucks.. she had met a friend there to whom she was going to give a copy of some songs. They were leaving, and apparently she had put the laptop on the trunk of her car to quickly copy the songs to a zip disk.
Well, in the haste, she forgot to take her laptop off of the car before driving off. She made a turn and the thing flew off into the street. Amazingly enough, she retrieved it, but again, it wasn't working.
"Ship me the laptop, again." This time, the stress of hitting the street had cracked the plastic housing and broken the battery connector off of the motherboard. I didn't think the laptop had a snowball's chance in hell of surviving that kind of impact, but I reattached the battery connector anyway.
Much to my surprise, it worked! The laptop had survived. It looked a little worse for wear... in fact it looked HORRIBLE. Scratched up, stickers all over it, cracked case... but the thing worked...
The poor laptop ultimately met its final demise a couple of years ago when, on another meeting at starbucks, about half of a decaf latte found its way into the laptop, followed by about 5 gallons of tapwater (from her attempt to clean it out) and an hour in a 200-degree oven (to dry it out).. I am sure it was neither the latte nor the oven heat that killed it, but rather the tons of minerals in Upstate New York water that were deposited on the motherboard during the drying process.
If you want, I'll replace those caps for you... even though the MOBO works, there is probably a bit more ripple on the rails, which could ultimately lead to shortened component life elsewhere on the board..
There was probably a low impedance path that caused an overcurrent condition on the power supply. This condition in turn may have caused the power supply to go unstable, in which case there would be a massive ripple current through the output bulk capacitors. If you examine the board, you might find a popped electrolytic, as those tend to contain copious amounts of magic smoke.
Paypal to move it's corporate headquarters to Nigeria, where it won't be encumbered by silly ethics rules. Paypal's new corporate headquarters will be located at 419 Greedyombo Rd, Stealagreenback, Nigeria.
"they should bring in whomsoever was the brilliant fellow who made it possible for somebody to watch a DVD in the front seat as a co-defendant"
So, you're saying that whomever invented the portable DVD player somehow shares culpability?
You're serving up french fries at McDonalds - so you're responsible for Joe Fatso's heart attack. Wait a minute, that was already thrown out of court..
"Is it justified to repeal laws when enough people stop following them?"
Actually, yes. That's the whole point of a representative democracy. Having more than half the people disobeying a law gives the implication that the law is not desired by the people and hence should be repealed.
If more than half of everyone sent a letter to congress demanding that a law be repealed, you can bet your ass it would be, because those representatives would know that if they didn't repeal it, they'd be voted out.
that the driver was indeed focused on the DVD player at the time of the accident. The facts of the case have not been established and it shows incredible journalistic irresponsibility for Slashdot to frame the story in such a was as to not only imply that the facts have indeed been established.
Mr. O'dowd obviously does not know how OSS works. There actually are code reviews, ya know? People are going to look at the code and say "hey, what does this piece of code do?" Sheesh..
Public terminals are used for what? Surfing the web? Word processing? Writing papers and doing spreadsheets?
If I were a school administrator, and I had to buy 1000 public computers for use by the students, and I had to choose between a $500 dell and a $1500 MAC, which do you think I am going to choose?
Task-specific labs are another case where purchasing MACs might be the right thing to do - epecially if it's a graphic design lab or something, but for everyday use, there's no justification for spending more than is necessary to accomplish the intended, basic tasks.
Macs are definitely better than PCs at some things, but both can run $OFFICE_SUITE faster than you can type, click, or drag.
Everyone is harping on the fact that the term "reverse firewall" is not really accurate. But, there's a more important issue here, and that is the idea that one of these should be forced on anyone who has a cable modem or access point. They're talking about taking more control away from Internet users, which I believe is the wrong thing to do.
Ahhh but like most rules, there are easy ways around them. I don't know if you saw the little snippet on OLN about bike technology, but they showed a closeup of one of the team bikes from, CSC I believe, and it had little brass weights glued to the frame - just to make it heavy enough to ride. None of the component durability issues are addressed... the bike was still stupid-light, but they got around the rules...
At the Wachovia USPro, I saw a vendor that had an ELEVEN pound bike. Everything was carbon right down to the rims. THAT is stupid light, and I wouldn't DARE ride it. Imagine having to strap a beowulf cluster of 100g weights to that thing to get it up to weight:)
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So, let me get this straight... The slashdot crowd bitches and moans when MicroSoft acts like a Monopoly, but they also bitch and moan when MicroSoft acts like a competitor?
I don't get it.. what's the problem with getting competitive on price in the face of opposition from a fierce competitor?
You have a good point. It is a big gray area because what will have to be determined in court is whether people viewing the parody interpret it as a parody of the song or of the election. In any case, it should be interesting.
I think they would be safe if they were making a parody of the song itself - but they are using the song to parody something unrelated - so I think they will not have protection under the parody statute...
but then again, IANAL...
"were you truant, out sick, or brain-dead, during that week in elementary school when they taught you about the American War Of Independence, about the Bill Of Rights, and about the reasons they came about?
What part of the Fourth Amendment don't you understand?"
I've never heard of any of these. Does all of this have something to do with the Internet?
He certainly is - and I have a whole house full of glued-together sawdust, woodglue, and undecipherable pictoral instruction manuals to show for it..
Some IKEA furniture is so cheap, the veneer isn't even veneer, but a vinyl sticker stuck to the particleboard! (The lillehammer bed is but one example)
Gates got rich monopolistically. Ingvar Kamprad got rich by gluing together a bunch of sawdust and selling it at a huge profit - and by shoving labor-intensive tasks like assembly to the customer, because we all know that labor is the biggest cost of doing business.
So, what invariably causes death is that something happens to the body that places it under stress. When the body realizes it can't go on, the heart fails and the body dies...
So what happens to people suffering from disease that won't be able to die? The heart will just keep going and going, keeping them alive unless maybe their lungs fill up with fluid... I don't know that this would actually happen, but if someone lives so long on one of these things that their quality of life is shit, what do you do then?
I suppose they could commit suicide, but many religions forbid it, and it is even against the law in some states.
Just a thought..
I want a phone... just a phone.. I don't want a gameboy... or camera.. or PDA... I don't care about whether or not I can surf the internet from my phone. Quite frankly, I don't see what that is so "cool" in so many peoples' opinions. I tried it once - surfing the web on this little tiny screen - just a bunch of text links that I could barely even read - and don't get me started on the keypad interface and trying to type. GAH! Why "texting" is so cool escapes me, as well as how nouns somehow become verbs. Just give me a goddamn phone. I hope I never lose the one I have because before long, all you will be able to buy is a swiss army phone with phone, camera, gameboy, wifi, PDA, can opener, fish scaler, paint scraper, laser tissue zapper, garage door opener, toilet paper dispenser, and sharpie all built in.. .
Mike Straka would call that guy an ImportTant (pronounced im-por-TANT)... Read the StrakaLogue on foxnews.com - it would be a great place to vent your frustrations with these Obliviots and ImporTants..
My employer has offices in several Indian cities. Not only is our high level work going over there, but the company actually brings them here on L-1 visas, pays them $10/hr to do our $70k/yr jobs, forces us to train them, and will not under any circumstances hire anyone in the US to fill vacancies before exhausting every L-1 or H1-B loophole they can find - and if they DO hire an American, it's a temp job w/o bennies or vacation or anything. Here's the kicker - if they end up contracting an American, that person is always someone of Indian descent that can speak the language - so they can communicate with all of the L-1 folks. Nice, eh?
I recently purchased an 8-way Serial ATA raid card from 3Ware, with 8 160GB serial ATA hard disks. I have this habit of recording things like the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia and storing them on my server to watch while on the trainer in the winter time. Anyhoo, it's only a couple of months old (bought it right before this year's Tour), but it seems rock solid so far. 1120GB or so total space. I can't afford a backup solution that size, so I'm really just wingin' it - but it's still safer than JBOD. Total cost was in the $1300 ballpark, which isn't bad considering it is shared among 3 houses in my neighborhood.
You forgot the other moral... "If it works, don't F! with it!" :)
A few years ago, I had purchased a laptop for my then-girlfriend's sister to use at college. She was by all definitions of the word, a laptop abuser. A scant 3 months after she went to school, I saw her at Christmas break and the laptop was covered in scratches and stickers - decorated nicely. A few months later, I get a call from her that her laptop wasn't working. After a few minutes of cursory diagnosis over the phone led to the conclusion that the power supply was no good. It wasn't charging the battery and the "plugged-in" LED wasn't turning on. So, I had her call the manufacturer for a warranty replacement. A couple of weeks go by and she gets the new power supply. No good. The laptop still won't turn on. What she had failed to mention to me is that she had knocked the laptop off of her desk, crashing it into the floor from 3 feet.
My first words were "Ship me the laptop." Sure enough, she had broken the DC connector off of the motherboard. Now, I know most of you slashdotters can guess at how complicated it is to take apart a laptop - and by complicated I mean TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS, I WOULD RATHER HAVE MY FINGERNAILS REMOVED. After an hour of removing what seemed like 200 access screws, I dug the motherboard out of the case. Of course it was a proprietary DC connector, but at least it had a standard landing pattern.
I soldered a new DC jack onto the motherboard and replaced the plug on the power supply with the proper mate. I re-assembled the laptop (only had a few screws left over) and shipped it back to her. She called to thank me for fixing it and to say how grateful she was that she didn't lose her music collection...
About a week later, she calls again... "You're going to hate me," she said... I sighed, knowing what she was about to tell me. "What happened now?" I asked. She went off on a long-winded story that ultimately had her at Starbucks.. she had met a friend there to whom she was going to give a copy of some songs. They were leaving, and apparently she had put the laptop on the trunk of her car to quickly copy the songs to a zip disk.
Well, in the haste, she forgot to take her laptop off of the car before driving off. She made a turn and the thing flew off into the street. Amazingly enough, she retrieved it, but again, it wasn't working.
"Ship me the laptop, again." This time, the stress of hitting the street had cracked the plastic housing and broken the battery connector off of the motherboard. I didn't think the laptop had a snowball's chance in hell of surviving that kind of impact, but I reattached the battery connector anyway.
Much to my surprise, it worked! The laptop had survived. It looked a little worse for wear... in fact it looked HORRIBLE. Scratched up, stickers all over it, cracked case... but the thing worked...
The poor laptop ultimately met its final demise a couple of years ago when, on another meeting at starbucks, about half of a decaf latte found its way into the laptop, followed by about 5 gallons of tapwater (from her attempt to clean it out) and an hour in a 200-degree oven (to dry it out).. I am sure it was neither the latte nor the oven heat that killed it, but rather the tons of minerals in Upstate New York water that were deposited on the motherboard during the drying process.
Poor thing, it went through hell, for sure...
If you want, I'll replace those caps for you... even though the MOBO works, there is probably a bit more ripple on the rails, which could ultimately lead to shortened component life elsewhere on the board..
There was probably a low impedance path that caused an overcurrent condition on the power supply. This condition in turn may have caused the power supply to go unstable, in which case there would be a massive ripple current through the output bulk capacitors. If you examine the board, you might find a popped electrolytic, as those tend to contain copious amounts of magic smoke.
Do you have any data to back up this outrageous claim?
oh wait... nevermind...
I wonder how fast this sucker can run a spell check on the word "derived."
Paypal to move it's corporate headquarters to Nigeria, where it won't be encumbered by silly ethics rules. Paypal's new corporate headquarters will be located at 419 Greedyombo Rd, Stealagreenback, Nigeria.
The California law does not apply to standard equipment screens.
"they should bring in whomsoever was the brilliant fellow who made it possible for somebody to watch a DVD in the front seat as a co-defendant"
So, you're saying that whomever invented the portable DVD player somehow shares culpability?
You're serving up french fries at McDonalds - so you're responsible for Joe Fatso's heart attack. Wait a minute, that was already thrown out of court..
"Is it justified to repeal laws when enough people stop following them?"
Actually, yes. That's the whole point of a representative democracy. Having more than half the people disobeying a law gives the implication that the law is not desired by the people and hence should be repealed.
If more than half of everyone sent a letter to congress demanding that a law be repealed, you can bet your ass it would be, because those representatives would know that if they didn't repeal it, they'd be voted out.
that the driver was indeed focused on the DVD player at the time of the accident. The facts of the case have not been established and it shows incredible journalistic irresponsibility for Slashdot to frame the story in such a was as to not only imply that the facts have indeed been established.
Mr. O'dowd obviously does not know how OSS works. There actually are code reviews, ya know? People are going to look at the code and say "hey, what does this piece of code do?" Sheesh..
Public terminals are used for what? Surfing the web? Word processing? Writing papers and doing spreadsheets?
If I were a school administrator, and I had to buy 1000 public computers for use by the students, and I had to choose between a $500 dell and a $1500 MAC, which do you think I am going to choose?
Task-specific labs are another case where purchasing MACs might be the right thing to do - epecially if it's a graphic design lab or something, but for everyday use, there's no justification for spending more than is necessary to accomplish the intended, basic tasks.
Macs are definitely better than PCs at some things, but both can run $OFFICE_SUITE faster than you can type, click, or drag.
Everyone is harping on the fact that the term "reverse firewall" is not really accurate. But, there's a more important issue here, and that is the idea that one of these should be forced on anyone who has a cable modem or access point. They're talking about taking more control away from Internet users, which I believe is the wrong thing to do.
Ahhh but like most rules, there are easy ways around them. I don't know if you saw the little snippet on OLN about bike technology, but they showed a closeup of one of the team bikes from, CSC I believe, and it had little brass weights glued to the frame - just to make it heavy enough to ride. None of the component durability issues are addressed... the bike was still stupid-light, but they got around the rules...
:)
At the Wachovia USPro, I saw a vendor that had an ELEVEN pound bike. Everything was carbon right down to the rims. THAT is stupid light, and I wouldn't DARE ride it. Imagine having to strap a beowulf cluster of 100g weights to that thing to get it up to weight