"destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."
We can only hope.
Doing so would certainly satisfy the Copyright Clause of the US Constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
I can think of few better ways to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" than "destroying the... broadcast television ecosystem."
I don't think we'll have to move NYC. I think we can hire some Dutch engineers to build dykes along the lower-west side, across the East River to Brooklyn, and then up by the Throg's Neck, between Queens and the Bronx. Aside from keeping above water, you'd get the reclaim all the land under the East River.
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it. - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
you're paying for the Service Level Agreement (SLA). What that means is that if your circuit goes down, someone's head usually rolls
Man, that's true. I once had a job where the company ran a T1 to my house so I could work from home. It had some trouble for a while, and I couldn't believe the level of service I got from Bell Atlantic (that's how long ago this was)...two really knowledgeable guys at my house, on the phone with a guy at
the CO. Eventually one of the guys started driving back and forth to make sure the CO guy wasn't a screwing something up
The cost of that service call would have blown their complete yearly revenue from a DSL line.
I had that Firefox misbehaviour on my old TiBook(if you're talking about not
being able to get to text boxes in the browser), and an upgrade fixed it, so
you might give that a go.
My sadness is that I just got a new Intel Mac, and CodeTek doesn't work
on that at all.:-( The other virtual desktops I tried suck...I'm running
Virtue Deskop now, but I'm not happy with it. You Control looked better,
but it crashed every 5 minutes.
Virtual Desktops seem to be the only thing where the Linux GUIs are better
than the Mac one. Gnome and KDE both have really good ones.
Slashdotters will be able to superimpose their own face over Ron Jeremy's and finally get to see themselves (albeit a hairy version) do nasty things to girlz.
I suspect the real killer-app for this technology would be the ability to
superimpose celebrities onto the actors.
Yeah, that's the way I work, too, only I have a bunch of GnuEmacs screens,
rather than a bunch of xterm windows running vi. And I use black text on
a white background, but that's just personal taste.
I'm sure there are plenty of Elise drivers who would spend that kind of money to get an even more exotic car, and to improve the 0-60 mph from 4.7 seconds to 3.1 or so.
I don't think so.... The Elise isn't about power & torque, it's about
lightness & handling. This car weigh 500lbs more than the current
model Elise. That's 25% more (2000lbs vs 2500lbs).
I know I wouldn't trade my Elise for a heavier car with better acceleration.
whenever I hear a big loss, I always see if it comes up to a billion. I've seen a few companies lose hundreds of millions, but nobody's come close to a billion that I know of.
When I write a piece of open source code, that takes a bit of my time too and is sometimes boring. By RMS's logic, I should charge each user
Yes, that's what he's always said. He just doesn't whan people to sell him something and make it legally impossible for him to alter it, so it works better for him, and to give the altered version to a friend.
So, if you want to put a smiley face on his autograph and xerox a copy for your brother, I'm sure he'd be okay with that.
I think part of the reason kids don't program is because programming, especially for large projects, is very hard and complex to tackle.
So, the reason no kid learns to be a car mechanic is because it would be too hard to
build Mom's Mercedes from scrap metal?
There are tons of cool and aproachable pieces of software kids could write...everything from a C program that displays stuff on a LCD plugged in your PC's serial port, to a web page that uses Googles Mapping API stuff to find your friends houses.
programming is a dying art among my peers because it's seen as 'uncool, unhip and boring.'
Coming from an old guy: It always was.
There are the same percentage of kids programming as in the 80s...it's just that
all the other kids now know what a computers is. Back then, only the
programmers knew about computers...today, everyone else does, too.
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I see the /sarcasm, but you have to admit, the project to build huge dykes around New York harbor is going to be very cool.
And once the Northwest Passage is open, it'll be the quickest way to ship from Korea, Japan, or Northern China to Europe and NE North America.
"destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."
We can only hope.
Doing so would certainly satisfy the Copyright Clause of the US Constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
I can think of few better ways to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" than "destroying the ... broadcast television ecosystem."
So, is it okay if people start migrating from the Sahara to your backyard?
I don't think we'll have to move NYC. I think we can hire some Dutch engineers to build dykes along the lower-west side, across the East River to Brooklyn, and then up by the Throg's Neck, between Queens and the Bronx. Aside from keeping above water, you'd get the reclaim all the land under the East River.
This would be the coolest project to work on.
We had the Enlightenment?
1) Don't buy your phone from a Carrier. I bought my Nexus One from Google. I bought my previous (non-smart) phone from some guy on Ebay.
Actually, it sounds like a Dave Chapelle bit.
Except all these guys with guns will take action if he does it. You just can't get much more relevant than that.
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it. - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
Normal computer users will be able to get them to run in their browsers?
I love Java, and I wish applets had worked...but they didn't. Flash did. (Silverlight might or might not; that remains to be seen)
Yeah, but it's a country with only about the population of Brooklyn & Queens.
Man, that's true. I once had a job where the company ran a T1 to my house so I could work from home. It had some trouble for a while, and I couldn't believe the level of service I got from Bell Atlantic (that's how long ago this was)...two really knowledgeable guys at my house, on the phone with a guy at the CO. Eventually one of the guys started driving back and forth to make sure the CO guy wasn't a screwing something up
The cost of that service call would have blown their complete yearly revenue from a DSL line.
My sadness is that I just got a new Intel Mac, and CodeTek doesn't work on that at all. :-( The other virtual desktops I tried suck...I'm running
Virtue Deskop now, but I'm not happy with it. You Control looked better,
but it crashed every 5 minutes.
Virtual Desktops seem to be the only thing where the Linux GUIs are better than the Mac one. Gnome and KDE both have really good ones.
I suspect the real killer-app for this technology would be the ability to superimpose celebrities onto the actors.
More important than what planet he's from is "Is he hiring?"
Yeah, that's the way I work, too, only I have a bunch of GnuEmacs screens, rather than a bunch of xterm windows running vi. And I use black text on a white background, but that's just personal taste.
I don't think so.... The Elise isn't about power & torque, it's about lightness & handling. This car weigh 500lbs more than the current model Elise. That's 25% more (2000lbs vs 2500lbs).
I know I wouldn't trade my Elise for a heavier car with better acceleration.
He also co-authored the best CORBA book I ever used.
AT&T & friends spent 1.4 billion on Net2Phone and then sold it for $28 million
Yeah, we need to get those WWII vets to stop dying!
Yes, that's what he's always said. He just doesn't whan people to sell him something and make it legally impossible for him to alter it, so it works better for him, and to give the altered version to a friend.
So, if you want to put a smiley face on his autograph and xerox a copy for your brother, I'm sure he'd be okay with that.
So, the reason no kid learns to be a car mechanic is because it would be too hard to build Mom's Mercedes from scrap metal?
There are tons of cool and aproachable pieces of software kids could write...everything from a C program that displays stuff on a LCD plugged in your PC's serial port, to a web page that uses Googles Mapping API stuff to find your friends houses.
Coming from an old guy: It always was.
There are the same percentage of kids programming as in the 80s...it's just that all the other kids now know what a computers is. Back then, only the programmers knew about computers...today, everyone else does, too.
That's a remarkable understatement. Try deleting /usr/lib/libc.a and
friends on your Linux box and see how much useful work you can get out of it.
Words to live by.