I wonder if Paul Allen put up the money so that Microsoft could start its own airline (spaceline!).
For no apparent reason, you'd have a Blue Sky of Death instead of a Blue Screen of Death and all passengers would perish instantly. Of course, all logs of the accident would be unrecoverable.
During the flight, you'd have to pay for extra upgrades such as seatbelts to stop you from being sucked out of the plane through the spontaneously appearing holes in the hull.
Linux and OSS friendly passengers would be considered as terrorists and shot on the spot once discovered.
I recently went to the US for a job interview. At immigration, they asked me to justify why I was staying for only two days. As soon as I mentioned I was here for a job interview, I was taken to the police center where a couple of ex-convicts without appropriate visas were also waiting.
I had to wait 30 mins for a police officer to take me to a small room for questioning! He was concerned that I might be working illegally and reminded me of the visa procedures.
As a british citizen, I have never dealt with the police and usually never get stopped for anything. This was a first for me. I felt accused, unwelcomed, rejected and insulted.
Also, the skilled worker H1B visa have run out this year, which means I can't start working until November earliest. This means that I'll probably look for a job elsewhere. In my opinion this is a loss to the US, since they should try to attract highly educated people like myself (in all modesty of course;) ).
Still sounds like shit
If you get rid of the background instruments, the synthetic voice still sounds... well... synthetic.
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So yeah, Perens is right that patents are an enormous threat to developers right now. But the threat is certain to diminish greatly with time.
Sure patents may run out, but companies will just patent new stuff that's relevant at that time. And by the time the old patents expire, they'll probably be commercially useless anyway.
A TRIBUTE?!?! Who gives a rat's arse! I want a decent film, not a filmography fest.
Most asian KungFu movies suck grass. The characterization is comical and the fights are just plain stupid. I'm sorry to say this, but Hollywood usually does a better job (except of course Flying Dragon and Croutching shitbag).
I watched Kill Bill with great anticipation but was thoroughly disappointed. I mean anyone who starts the credits with "Quentin's 4th Film"... WTF!?! I mean I like his movies but this was just a piss take. I didn't feel involved during the action scenes. We knew Uma would win from start and I didn't even notice most of the people she killed. Deja-vue to death. Then this all this slow-motion shite to make it 'super-emotional'. That coupled with supposedly 'cool' humour and - ohh my God!!? - REFERENCES TO OTHER FILMS... How soooophisticated.
Not only was I bored during 40% of the film, but I felt ripped off at the end because I only got half a film. I might download KB II but that's as far as I'll go.
I use to like Tarantino. But he's hot-headed and cliche-driven now.
They showed it dancing (to its own music), flashing its lights, walking around and finding its way using dynamic path planning and environment sensing. It responded to an extensive voice vocabulary and mubbled some stuff in Japanese.
A PC was wirelessly to it linked showing some graphical and textual output from the robot. Anyway, that PC was running Unix, not sure if it was Linux. I guess the robot also ran a Unix-based OS.
What pisses me off, is that since 9/11 loads measures have been taken to improve security, usually at the cost of personal privacy.
IMHO it's just opportunism to tighten the noose by using the 9/11 excuse. People are still scared so it's quite easy to pass the laws and the government is scrambling while it can.
I seriously doubt monitoring the whole population will lead to anything conclusive. I mean, terrorists are not fools, they'll use covert method and encryption to communicate.
And anyway, anything called the Patriot Act would make me suspicious in the first place.
I just hope University of Tennessee isn't running their Logistical Networking to host their webpage. It sure isn't doing too well dealing with the slashdot load.
Unknown parties broke into Steadicopter's Kfar Maccabi plant, and stole the helicopter, but not its computer software or the money in the office.
Surely, the computer software must be the most valuable here? I'm sure it's not that hard to build a remote controlled helicopter, so the value must be in it's automated onboard computer vision guidance system i.e. software...
Also why not take the cash? And anyway, why did they have cash in the office?
Maybe it was a couple of drunken teenagers looking for a joyride:)
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I wonder if Paul Allen put up the money so that Microsoft could start its own airline (spaceline!).
For no apparent reason, you'd have a Blue Sky of Death instead of a Blue Screen of Death and all passengers would perish instantly. Of course, all logs of the accident would be unrecoverable.
During the flight, you'd have to pay for extra upgrades such as seatbelts to stop you from being sucked out of the plane through the spontaneously appearing holes in the hull.
Linux and OSS friendly passengers would be considered as terrorists and shot on the spot once discovered.
The difference is that one is unstable and easy to use while the other is stable and hard to use.
So what's the big deal? The Faces of Death commercial videos have featured stuff like that for years.
I recently went to the US for a job interview. At immigration, they asked me to justify why I was staying for only two days. As soon as I mentioned I was here for a job interview, I was taken to the police center where a couple of ex-convicts without appropriate visas were also waiting.
I had to wait 30 mins for a police officer to take me to a small room for questioning! He was concerned that I might be working illegally and reminded me of the visa procedures.
As a british citizen, I have never dealt with the police and usually never get stopped for anything. This was a first for me. I felt accused, unwelcomed, rejected and insulted.
Also, the skilled worker H1B visa have run out this year, which means I can't start working until November earliest. This means that I'll probably look for a job elsewhere. In my opinion this is a loss to the US, since they should try to attract highly educated people like myself (in all modesty of course ;) ).
Surprising this hasn't happened before.
Still sounds like shit
If you get rid of the background instruments, the synthetic voice still sounds
So yeah, Perens is right that patents are an enormous threat to developers right now. But the threat is certain to diminish greatly with time.
Sure patents may run out, but companies will just patent new stuff that's relevant at that time. And by the time the old patents expire, they'll probably be commercially useless anyway.
A TRIBUTE?!?! Who gives a rat's arse! I want a decent film, not a filmography fest.
Most asian KungFu movies suck grass. The characterization is comical and the fights are just plain stupid. I'm sorry to say this, but Hollywood usually does a better job (except of course Flying Dragon and Croutching shitbag).
Right on!
I watched Kill Bill with great anticipation but was thoroughly disappointed. I mean anyone who starts the credits with "Quentin's 4th Film"... WTF!?! I mean I like his movies but this was just a piss take. I didn't feel involved during the action scenes. We knew Uma would win from start and I didn't even notice most of the people she killed. Deja-vue to death. Then this all this slow-motion shite to make it 'super-emotional'. That coupled with supposedly 'cool' humour and - ohh my God!!? - REFERENCES TO OTHER FILMS... How soooophisticated.
Not only was I bored during 40% of the film, but I felt ripped off at the end because I only got half a film. I might download KB II but that's as far as I'll go.
I use to like Tarantino. But he's hot-headed and cliche-driven now.
That's exactly what FreeNet does. It hides the sender and the reciever by rooting data through random other peers.
The major problem is that it's slow.
At SIGGRAPH 2003 this year, we saw a demonstration by Masahiro Fujita, the head of Sony Intelligent Dynamics Laboratory, of this robot during the Android Dreams: The Present and Future of Autonomous Robotics session.
They showed it dancing (to its own music), flashing its lights, walking around and finding its way using dynamic path planning and environment sensing. It responded to an extensive voice vocabulary and mubbled some stuff in Japanese.
A PC was wirelessly to it linked showing some graphical and textual output from the robot. Anyway, that PC was running Unix, not sure if it was Linux. I guess the robot also ran a Unix-based OS.
Wait until these guys see Space travel costs skyrocket (!) down to a mere commodity amusement ride price. They're gonna be sore in the pocket.
Hopefully the XPrize will help make things cheaper.
If you thought
Because the files contain no content, they could be distributed in any way without concerns about piracy.
I can see how consumers will love sharing and downloading nothing. RIAA version of File-sharing becomes Nothing-sharing.
Microsoft? De Beers?
If this bill goes through, it's gonna be a free-for-all grab-while-you-can anti-anti-trust bonanza in every industry sector!
What pisses me off, is that since 9/11 loads measures have been taken to improve security, usually at the cost of personal privacy.
IMHO it's just opportunism to tighten the noose by using the 9/11 excuse. People are still scared so it's quite easy to pass the laws and the government is scrambling while it can.
I seriously doubt monitoring the whole population will lead to anything conclusive. I mean, terrorists are not fools, they'll use covert method and encryption to communicate.
And anyway, anything called the Patriot Act would make me suspicious in the first place.
What about using dialup via your cell phone?
I just hope University of Tennessee isn't running their Logistical Networking to host their webpage. It sure isn't doing too well dealing with the slashdot load.
Help me find a job, win $1000!
Great idea! Does it work in practice?
Unknown parties broke into Steadicopter's Kfar Maccabi plant, and stole the helicopter, but not its computer software or the money in the office.
:)
Surely, the computer software must be the most valuable here? I'm sure it's not that hard to build a remote controlled helicopter, so the value must be in it's automated onboard computer vision guidance system i.e. software...
Also why not take the cash? And anyway, why did they have cash in the office?
Maybe it was a couple of drunken teenagers looking for a joyride
a mini-nuke. Or is that an extra?
The total payload if 60kg and you only get to choose for 20kg. Why do you have to have a camera? If I pay $9.5M, I wanna be able to decide.
What exactly does Sarah Gordon claim to be the psychology of a virus writer?
She also seems to claim a whole lot more stuff
Please vote here to demand that SPOILER slaphead "Slappy White" be publicly burnt on the stake for SPOILING Matrix Revolutions for all of us?
My vote: YES PLEASE!
I mean really, who gives a rat's arse about the Lemmings population flux??!
If the Lemmings were running Linux or if the researchers found the solution playing the Lemmings videograme then maybe I'd be midly interested...