Of course, since the parent poster did not contain a hyperlink to the article, the plain text URL was mangled by SlashCode and contained a space in it. Hence the 404. But the link is not dead.
I'm sorry but applying the Kyoto resolutions is certainly not "jumping to a solution", it is more like "minimizing human interference with the atmosphere and the climate, until we know better".
Here's an analogy to the idea behind the reasoning:
Suppose you are a clueless driver driving an old car that has never gone beyond 55 mph, and has always behaved nicely so far. Then, for whatever reason, you begin using that car at higher and higher speeds: 70, 80, 90 mph, and you realize that when you hit those speeds, your car is shaking all along the way, you have trouble steering it and the motor is overheating. You don't know anything about cars, but you find it strange. Then an idea springs to your mind : "Hey, what has changed since the last few weeks ? Well, my average speed has gone way beyond what my car was used to. So, it may have something to do with my speed.". So you try to go back to the speed levels you used to drive your car at before. Since you have no idea how a car works, you try this, thinking that it may or may not work, but it is certainly not unreasonable to think that it may work.
Not understanding how it works is no excuse for taking no action and not trying to limit the consumption of fossil carbon. It may or may not work, but we also know that it took tens of millions of years to accumulate it in the present oil wells, yet it will only be a few decades until we blow it all up into the atmosphere. Given what we know about the potential greenhouse effects of carbon dioxyde, it is reasonable to think that reducing our consumption of fossil fuels would certaimly be a good thing.
So to me, the Kyoto agreements sound more like "let's slow down our fuel burning util we've got a complete understanding of all the effects that carbon dioxyde may have on the climate, instead of just burning away until something irreversible happens".
Percy Schmeiser's web site. Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola. Since he uses his own crops for seeds, and Monsanto's GM seeds are patented, Monsanto's position is that it doesn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene and that he must pay their Technology Fee.
You are surrounded by lawyers. Resistance is futile.
Actually, the barbaric acronym "USPTO lawyer" is not really English. Nor is it related to any human language, BTW. It means "Vogon poet" in Vogon language. That may explain your cephalo-enteric crises..
Well, "open source zealots" are a bit puzzled at someone obviously defending SCO's right to protect their IP and copyrights on the one hand, and denying those rights to the Free Software community on the other hand. YMMV.
But then again, it's easier to be nice to poor little Cisco than to blame them when they are wrong -- I suppose Forbes likes it when Cisco pays thousands of bucks for commercial advertizing in their paper, don't they ?
Meanwhile, the FSF may be right, but then again, they don't spend a dime in advertizing -- too bad for them. Aaaah, freedom of speech, as long as it brings money home...
Actually, it's some crappy journalist, supporting the proprietary software business model (you know, the guys who claim to support "copyrights" along with the RIAA and MPAA), who wants to eliminate the type of "copyrights" that he doesn't like. What a thick hypocrite.
You know what? The GPL is a license like any other, and it also protects the author's copyright. If you don't like GPLed software, don't use it.
Actually, this is a way of implicitly threatening the whole Linux community. This wording is very similar to mafia-like blackmail: "I would like your business to survive, Mr. Orsini" (i.e. cough up, or we'll bomb your shop). Truely despicable.
Oh yeah, it's command-line utility, but it's still there on my Win2000 box, and it's provided by Microsoft. It may be stolen code from some BSD though... Dunno if it still exists in WinXP or Win2003.
From my point of view, one of the most influential guys in the Linux world in the last few months has been Klaus Knopper, the developer and maintainer of Knoppix.
His distribution is one of the most powerful in terms of automated hardware detection; it is also very attractive for people who are willing to try a Linux distribution, but without having to touch their hard disks; and it has generated a flurry of derivatives for all needs and tastes.
Kudos to Klaus Knopper and all the Knoppix-based distros !
Would you care to point me to the place where I can find a Unix version of Visual C++ ? Since Unix is the corporate standard, if I'm in my right mind, I can surely find a Visual C++ suiting my Unix needs...
Otherwise, you might as well fit into the category of the people "out of their right mind"...
Oh, and kdevelop is a great tool. Don't mistake it for Visual C++.
Well, yeah. This is a job for "SuperMarketplace" (tadaaaa !). But, hey, does the "marketplace" really do its job when it allows some software companies to develop a monopoly through unfair practices towards the OEMs ?
Believing in "marketplace" naturally regulating the quality of products in a market, weeding out the crappy products, is fine and cool. But actually getting off your ass to make sure that "marketplace rules are applied" is quite another business.
Mrs McCarthy rejected the criticisms from small and medium sized enterprises, stating that she had received letters from SMEs calling for such legislation to be introduced. A company from the South West of England, specialising in voice recognition technology, had written to her welcoming her report.
Could it be the Cambridge-based Entropic company, specialized in speech recognition? I do not suppose that there are many SMEs specialized in that field in the South West of England.
Well, this particular rat may not have as long a lifespan as expected... Besides, ending up in a penguin's stomach is probably not a pleasant experience.
I reckon you are alluding to NVIDIA-specific acceleration. Then you should try Morphix. It's a set of derivatives from Knoppix, and they even have a full ISO image dedicated to Linux games.
And of course, it automatically detects NVidia graphics cards and boots into accelerated mode. If it doesn't, go back to the boot prompt and type "morphix xmodule=nvidia". Not sure they have acceleration for recent ATI Radeon boards though.
the reason nothing can be made truly idiot-proof is that no rational human being can guess all of the variations that an idiot is going to somehow come up with.
This confirms what I have learnt from experience, although I was not able to come up with a well defined law to rule it: idiots are very creative. As a software designer, this kind of creativity is definitely something I dread.
Oh, and I'm also a part-time CVS repository administrator. In this field, creativity among clueless users is also a possibility that keeps me awake at all times.
This area is shady at least. It's not about software , it's about *firmware*. Big difference : whereas the average user may be able to restore the software to its previous version (or should be able to), with firmware it's no longer the case.
Damn, I'm sure Eric didn't post the source himself. He must have trusted this in the same guy who produced SCO's slideshow. He should be more picky about his collaborators.
So, you assume that this little girl knowingly stole MP3s "from the Net". Well, come to think about it, that's obvious [MODE IRONY ON]:
Any 12-years-old knows the value of goods, be they material or immaterial (have you ever taught a kid about the value of something immaterial ?)
Teachers in kindergartens constantly discourage kids from sharing with their schoolmates, that's a well-known fact.
Any 12-years-old knows that sharing is actually stealing (which is typically reminiscent of newspeak)
Since you are paying for a service, you should expect to get sued for using this service. Of course, everybody reads the tiny lines in the user's agreement when accepting the terms of the contract. Of course, Kazaa displays a big message saying : "BEWARE OF COPYRIGHT ISSUES!" everytime you download an MP3 file.
It also sounds correct from reading your post that this 12-year-old inflicted as much as $150,000 damages worth per song she dowloaded, even though she was just listening to them as she would listen to the radio. See my point about immaterial goods: if you can't justify this ludicrous $150,000 to me, would you care to explain that to her ?
Finally, you compare this 12-years-old, who is using an e-commerce service she actually paid for, from her home, to a burglar kid breaking into your house. Well, it's all plain obvious insn't it ?
Yup, and the same applies to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. He was also democratically elected, and whatever one might think about his political action, nobody but the Venezuelan people has a right to overthrow him. That's not what the CIA bigwigs tend to think, though...
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Segmentation fault (Division by zero). Core dumped.
(Geez, why isn't there a "-1, Obvious joke" moderation option ?)
I wonder in fear what kind of application the poopsmith might build with that library...
No, he actually meant "yer ass".
Of course, since the parent poster did not contain a hyperlink to the article, the plain text URL was mangled by SlashCode and contained a space in it. Hence the 404. But the link is not dead.
Here's an analogy to the idea behind the reasoning:
Suppose you are a clueless driver driving an old car that has never gone beyond 55 mph, and has always behaved nicely so far. Then, for whatever reason, you begin using that car at higher and higher speeds: 70, 80, 90 mph, and you realize that when you hit those speeds, your car is shaking all along the way, you have trouble steering it and the motor is overheating. You don't know anything about cars, but you find it strange. Then an idea springs to your mind : "Hey, what has changed since the last few weeks ? Well, my average speed has gone way beyond what my car was used to. So, it may have something to do with my speed.". So you try to go back to the speed levels you used to drive your car at before. Since you have no idea how a car works, you try this, thinking that it may or may not work, but it is certainly not unreasonable to think that it may work.
Not understanding how it works is no excuse for taking no action and not trying to limit the consumption of fossil carbon. It may or may not work, but we also know that it took tens of millions of years to accumulate it in the present oil wells, yet it will only be a few decades until we blow it all up into the atmosphere. Given what we know about the potential greenhouse effects of carbon dioxyde, it is reasonable to think that reducing our consumption of fossil fuels would certaimly be a good thing.
So to me, the Kyoto agreements sound more like "let's slow down our fuel burning util we've got a complete understanding of all the effects that carbon dioxyde may have on the climate, instead of just burning away until something irreversible happens".
Hmmm, nice tans to get with all those protons and X-Ray photons running loose... :-)
Percy Schmeiser's web site. Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola. Since he uses his own crops for seeds, and Monsanto's GM seeds are patented, Monsanto's position is that it doesn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene and that he must pay their Technology Fee.
You are surrounded by lawyers. Resistance is futile.
Actually, the barbaric acronym "USPTO lawyer" is not really English. Nor is it related to any human language, BTW. It means "Vogon poet" in Vogon language. That may explain your cephalo-enteric crises..
But then again, it's easier to be nice to poor little Cisco than to blame them when they are wrong -- I suppose Forbes likes it when Cisco pays thousands of bucks for commercial advertizing in their paper, don't they ?
Meanwhile, the FSF may be right, but then again, they don't spend a dime in advertizing -- too bad for them. Aaaah, freedom of speech, as long as it brings money home...
You know what? The GPL is a license like any other, and it also protects the author's copyright. If you don't like GPLed software, don't use it.
Actually, this is a way of implicitly threatening the whole Linux community. This wording is very similar to mafia-like blackmail: "I would like your business to survive, Mr. Orsini" (i.e. cough up, or we'll bomb your shop). Truely despicable.
Oh yeah, it's command-line utility, but it's still there on my Win2000 box, and it's provided by Microsoft. It may be stolen code from some BSD though... Dunno if it still exists in WinXP or Win2003.
His distribution is one of the most powerful in terms of automated hardware detection; it is also very attractive for people who are willing to try a Linux distribution, but without having to touch their hard disks; and it has generated a flurry of derivatives for all needs and tastes.
Kudos to Klaus Knopper and all the Knoppix-based distros !
Otherwise, you might as well fit into the category of the people "out of their right mind"...
Oh, and kdevelop is a great tool. Don't mistake it for Visual C++.
Believing in "marketplace" naturally regulating the quality of products in a market, weeding out the crappy products, is fine and cool. But actually getting off your ass to make sure that "marketplace rules are applied" is quite another business.
Man, it looks like someone managed to port IIS on Kontiki OS !
Now here's the beef : Microsoft acquired Entropic in 1999.
So unless the SME mentionned by McCarthy was another one (which I doubt), she's probably been telling us another whopper of a lie.
Well, this particular rat may not have as long a lifespan as expected... Besides, ending up in a penguin's stomach is probably not a pleasant experience.
And of course, it automatically detects NVidia graphics cards and boots into accelerated mode. If it doesn't, go back to the boot prompt and type "morphix xmodule=nvidia". Not sure they have acceleration for recent ATI Radeon boards though.
This confirms what I have learnt from experience, although I was not able to come up with a well defined law to rule it: idiots are very creative. As a software designer, this kind of creativity is definitely something I dread.
Oh, and I'm also a part-time CVS repository administrator. In this field, creativity among clueless users is also a possibility that keeps me awake at all times.
This area is shady at least. It's not about software , it's about *firmware*. Big difference : whereas the average user may be able to restore the software to its previous version (or should be able to), with firmware it's no longer the case.
Damn, I'm sure Eric didn't post the source himself. He must have trusted this in the same guy who produced SCO's slideshow. He should be more picky about his collaborators.
So, you assume that this little girl knowingly stole MP3s "from the Net". Well, come to think about it, that's obvious [MODE IRONY ON]:
- Any 12-years-old knows the value of goods, be they material or immaterial (have you ever taught a kid about the value of something immaterial ?)
- Teachers in kindergartens constantly discourage kids from sharing with their schoolmates, that's a well-known fact.
- Any 12-years-old knows that sharing is actually stealing (which is typically reminiscent of newspeak)
- Since you are paying for a service, you should expect to get sued for using this service. Of course, everybody reads the tiny lines in the user's agreement when accepting the terms of the contract. Of course, Kazaa displays a big message saying : "BEWARE OF COPYRIGHT ISSUES!" everytime you download an MP3 file.
- It also sounds correct from reading your post that this 12-year-old inflicted as much as $150,000 damages worth per song she dowloaded, even though she was just listening to them as she would listen to the radio. See my point about immaterial goods: if you can't justify this ludicrous $150,000 to me, would you care to explain that to her ?
- Finally, you compare this 12-years-old, who is using an e-commerce service she actually paid for, from her home, to a burglar kid breaking into your house. Well, it's all plain obvious insn't it ?
[MODE IRONY OFF]Obvious as in "obvious troll" maybe ?
Yup, not to mention her close friends & family, her schoolmates...
Yup, and the same applies to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. He was also democratically elected, and whatever one might think about his political action, nobody but the Venezuelan people has a right to overthrow him. That's not what the CIA bigwigs tend to think, though...