Couldn't they have chosen a better color than red? I just have this image of a kid curled up in bed at night, unable to sleep staring at this ominous red glowing fish all night.
"If I'm Merrill Lynch and have a trading application proprietary to Merrill Lynch and deploy it across all my trading desks, if that deployment occurred where the Linux OS and app are distributed togetherm[sic] there are arguments that Merrill would have to provide their proprietary trading application in source form to everyone."
Can anyone tell me what part of the GPL this is from, or is Darl reading a different supersecret proprietary copy that he will licence to us for $1000 a peek?
Great...notice this naturally occuring virus is registered. They spared no time registering an organism...can you even do that? wait... is this Biotech company a microsoft subsidiary?
First off let me say I'm not a hacker in the evil sense so this has no real direct effect on me. BUT - don't people realize by now that NO CRIME is really detered by increased sentences? Peopl say the death penalty is a deterant. here's an all too common death penalty case. someone is robbing a gas station at gun point, the clerk reaches for the gun and the perp shoots him/her. do you think the person is actually thinking, hey, I could get the death penalty for this, I better jsut get shot and go to jail. no.
Most importantly, just about everyone who commits a crime thinks they are not gonna get caught. why? because if you thought you WERE gonna get caught, you wouldn't do it. no one is that stupid.
I'm glad space.com has latched on to the government-by-fear tactic of trying to get money by trying scaring the crap out of us more than the other people who are trying to scare the crap out of us. Way to raise the bar with the whole "future of the species thing". that's real progressive guys. I support space research becuase it's cool and in the end not very expensive. Yes, it SEEMS expensive, with 100 million dollar missions and what not, but then you need to remember the econmics of scale...Before the internet became popular Americans spent over 1 Billion (B BILLION not M MILLION) dollars on phone sex every year. Ok, I don't have the source for that info, I'll admit it, but it illistrates my point even if the number is incorrect.
I know this is a late comment, but one should note that under SCO in the news on www.sco.com they have a link to story entitiled 'Unix users warned on SCO legal action subtitled "take nothing for granted".
I guess you should also note that their header "SCO | SCO Grows your business" makes absolutely no sense...that's like saying Water grows plants..unless they are intimating that my business will pop completely out of a seed they sowed like a farmer grows plants (which makes no sense if I have a business), I think they mean "causes your business to grow"
This guy claims that Betamax died due to it's recording shortcomings huh? well you know, I like most of my fellow consumers can't record onto DVDs, and yet it's plain to see that they are here to stay...in fact the only real advantage to DVDs is the quality (no one really buys a DVD player just for the bonus features). I think the real answer is that it's easy to "predict" the fall of a technology after the fact. If it was that easy to know if products would succeed or not then no product would ever fail. There are too many other factors this guy even has neglected (timing, etc). If he did have the perfect formula why is he a reporter and not a marketing Mogul?
I was being sarcastic, my point is that this is not a technology revolution, it's just a better piece of equipment which does what other stuff already does...it doesn't "work on cysts" that doesn't make sense
This is just a water filtration device, it's not as outlandish as you people are trying to make it sound. if the "hard to find" article is accurate it's not a panacea just a water detoxifier. That's nice, but it's not exactly revolutionary. I guess this one must be fast or cheap or something, I know the destillers we use take forever to fill up. Good knews for the third world, but don't stop worrying about cancer
As an athiest and a patriot I have been waiting for this for years! Think about it. What would the founding fathers think of us pledging that we will accept the impetus of government and deny our own right to rebel on a daily basis. In god we trust is the only thing left on the chopping block!
I might add after perusing the comments a little about superconductors. First off, liquid nitrogen is not a magic and impossible to find substance. it is cheap and easy to acquire as far as gasses go. Secondly, the city of Chicago has been using superconductors in their power grid for around 2 years. Supposedly the main line carries something on the order of 10s of thousands of amps (I belive 16,000 but I am not sure). Just for scale, you be hard pressed to find a house with any plugs rated above 20 amps, the nuclear structure lab I work at has some lines with 50 amps, but none higher.
Firstly, Fuel cells ARE 8th grade chem, they are just 2H + O = H2O. Secondly, astrophysicists have been theorizing antigravitation as a solution to the "dark matter" problem for quite sometime. Don't get me wrong, I am all for a healthy dose of cynicism, but in order to progress we need to take an open mind. This is not that far out of the realm of possibility. Point to the error in the theory if you feel this person is wrong. Then your point will stand on it's own.
Ok, but let's not forget the important questions brewing on every real star wars fan's mind...IS JAR JAR BINKS GOING TO EVER POKE HIS UGLY MUG ON SCREEN AGAIN? because if so I am returning my light saber.
Ok first off, blank cds are by no means all used for music....has anyone noticed how floppys have all but drifted from computer store shelves? more importantly floppys are usually signifigantly more expensive than CDs. This sounds like the RIAA setting the scene to introduce something similar to the Blank Tape tax they tried to do in the 80's.
More importantly I think that this is just the record companies trying to extend their usefulness.
consider this. an artist only makes a few dollars on each CD. So if I download music or get it from a friend, what exactly did the record company do? nothing. So if I send a check for 5 dollars to each artist for every album, then not only am I not doing anything wrong, I am helping the artists make more $$$. so foreget the record companies, they are worthless!
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Man, I was really excited for an android market - how shocked I was when it was just a software store. My android still needs gyroscopes
Couldn't they have chosen a better color than red? I just have this image of a kid curled up in bed at night, unable to sleep staring at this ominous red glowing fish all night.
"If I'm Merrill Lynch and have a trading application proprietary to Merrill Lynch and deploy it across all my trading desks, if that deployment occurred where the Linux OS and app are distributed togetherm[sic] there are arguments that Merrill would have to provide their proprietary trading application in source form to everyone."
Can anyone tell me what part of the GPL this is from, or is Darl reading a different supersecret proprietary copy that he will licence to us for $1000 a peek?
Great...notice this naturally occuring virus is registered. They spared no time registering an organism...can you even do that? wait... is this Biotech company a microsoft subsidiary?
I'm glad they are keeping this program....IMHO the space shuttle is what has kept us from mars...too expensive and very not reusable.
First off let me say I'm not a hacker in the evil sense so this has no real direct effect on me. BUT - don't people realize by now that NO CRIME is really detered by increased sentences? Peopl say the death penalty is a deterant. here's an all too common death penalty case. someone is robbing a gas station at gun point, the clerk reaches for the gun and the perp shoots him/her. do you think the person is actually thinking, hey, I could get the death penalty for this, I better jsut get shot and go to jail. no. Most importantly, just about everyone who commits a crime thinks they are not gonna get caught. why? because if you thought you WERE gonna get caught, you wouldn't do it. no one is that stupid.
All I have to say is: HA people shouldn't say things about stuff they know nothing about.
I'm glad space.com has latched on to the government-by-fear tactic of trying to get money by trying scaring the crap out of us more than the other people who are trying to scare the crap out of us. Way to raise the bar with the whole "future of the species thing". that's real progressive guys. I support space research becuase it's cool and in the end not very expensive. Yes, it SEEMS expensive, with 100 million dollar missions and what not, but then you need to remember the econmics of scale...Before the internet became popular Americans spent over 1 Billion (B BILLION not M MILLION) dollars on phone sex every year. Ok, I don't have the source for that info, I'll admit it, but it illistrates my point even if the number is incorrect.
I know this is a late comment, but one should note that under SCO in the news on www.sco.com they have a link to story entitiled 'Unix users warned on SCO legal action subtitled "take nothing for granted". I guess you should also note that their header "SCO | SCO Grows your business" makes absolutely no sense...that's like saying Water grows plants..unless they are intimating that my business will pop completely out of a seed they sowed like a farmer grows plants (which makes no sense if I have a business), I think they mean "causes your business to grow"
This guy claims that Betamax died due to it's recording shortcomings huh? well you know, I like most of my fellow consumers can't record onto DVDs, and yet it's plain to see that they are here to stay...in fact the only real advantage to DVDs is the quality (no one really buys a DVD player just for the bonus features). I think the real answer is that it's easy to "predict" the fall of a technology after the fact. If it was that easy to know if products would succeed or not then no product would ever fail. There are too many other factors this guy even has neglected (timing, etc). If he did have the perfect formula why is he a reporter and not a marketing Mogul?
I was being sarcastic, my point is that this is not a technology revolution, it's just a better piece of equipment which does what other stuff already does...it doesn't "work on cysts" that doesn't make sense
one day I will learn which news to use too. News not knews provides views!
This is just a water filtration device, it's not as outlandish as you people are trying to make it sound. if the "hard to find" article is accurate it's not a panacea just a water detoxifier. That's nice, but it's not exactly revolutionary. I guess this one must be fast or cheap or something, I know the destillers we use take forever to fill up. Good knews for the third world, but don't stop worrying about cancer
As an athiest and a patriot I have been waiting for this for years! Think about it. What would the founding fathers think of us pledging that we will accept the impetus of government and deny our own right to rebel on a daily basis. In god we trust is the only thing left on the chopping block!
I might add after perusing the comments a little about superconductors. First off, liquid nitrogen is not a magic and impossible to find substance. it is cheap and easy to acquire as far as gasses go. Secondly, the city of Chicago has been using superconductors in their power grid for around 2 years. Supposedly the main line carries something on the order of 10s of thousands of amps (I belive 16,000 but I am not sure). Just for scale, you be hard pressed to find a house with any plugs rated above 20 amps, the nuclear structure lab I work at has some lines with 50 amps, but none higher.
Firstly, Fuel cells ARE 8th grade chem, they are just 2H + O = H2O. Secondly, astrophysicists have been theorizing antigravitation as a solution to the "dark matter" problem for quite sometime. Don't get me wrong, I am all for a healthy dose of cynicism, but in order to progress we need to take an open mind. This is not that far out of the realm of possibility. Point to the error in the theory if you feel this person is wrong. Then your point will stand on it's own.
Ok, but let's not forget the important questions brewing on every real star wars fan's mind...IS JAR JAR BINKS GOING TO EVER POKE HIS UGLY MUG ON SCREEN AGAIN? because if so I am returning my light saber.
Ok first off, blank cds are by no means all used for music....has anyone noticed how floppys have all but drifted from computer store shelves? more importantly floppys are usually signifigantly more expensive than CDs. This sounds like the RIAA setting the scene to introduce something similar to the Blank Tape tax they tried to do in the 80's. More importantly I think that this is just the record companies trying to extend their usefulness. consider this. an artist only makes a few dollars on each CD. So if I download music or get it from a friend, what exactly did the record company do? nothing. So if I send a check for 5 dollars to each artist for every album, then not only am I not doing anything wrong, I am helping the artists make more $$$. so foreget the record companies, they are worthless!