what is most interesting about that licensing list is the absence of a few names:
IBM SUN Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE Imation
Maybe IBM could do the Linux community a favor and put 50K of their "X Billion dollars for Linux" into a perpetual MP3 license.
Although probably it's best for MP3 to die its death now. Long live OGG. If Imation's "RipGo!" Mini-CDR player had OGG, it would be in my possession right now.
If you don't have the time to evaluate the bids than it is my opinion that you are not properly doing your job as a manager, and you do your company a disservice.
good point, but by "thorough" and "near-random" I was a bit misleading. you do your "best effort" to evaluate, but you can't go and visit 5 developer sites and interview all their back references. there just isn't enough time when upper management wants the project started last week.
of course, the last time I tried to point out that if they want me to do my job right, I'll need more resources and time, I found myself looking for a new job pretty damned quick.
having evaluated bids like this a lot, i'll have to put "evaluated" in quotes. you don't have time to really go in depth and really check out each bid. if you get five bids, one is for $100,000, one if for $1,000, and the other three are for $10,000, that makes it an easy first cut down to the middle 3, because obviously the 100K people are insanely out of our budget, and the 1K people are obviously missing something.
this is how most government contracts work. ignore the high bidder, ignore the low bidder, and hope for the best when you pick one of the middles at near-random. you just don't have time to be thorough when you evaluate a bunch of bids.
I was mostly responding to the parent's remark: "left-wing Liberal comment". Saying all left-wing Liberals are nazi-esque socialists is not much different than saying all right-wing Conservatives are Pat Robertson-loving fascists. Neither generalisation gets us much of anywhere.
(taking the troll bait:) interesting. seeing as how I write applications for "app servers" for a ton of money, and it is interesting enough work to keep me happy and employed, I think I have a "clue". it ceases to be a buzzword when it pays for your house and car.
(troll bait for the troll:) at least I can figure out how to log in before posting.
um... what planet is he living on? the fact that a powerful media executive can even make this public statement without facing very, very stiff fines is a testament to how powerful he is. he is a bold-faced liar, trying to shift the truth, trying to dissolve hundreds of years of fair use law which point out to him, and us, that it is completely legal to make a copy of a DVD for personal use. through CSS, etc, Valenti et al attempt to make things difficult, but I am sorry, Mr. Valenti, all your technology can't change the fact that it is still, and always will be, legal to make a copy of my own DVD for personal use.
that is, unless Mr. Valenti and his posse manage to successfully continue buying politicians and changing the laws.
what laws has Mr. Valenti broken by this blatant, public lie? since it wasn't under oath, probably none. and even then, he could probably just say (in private), "Oh, I meant commercially copying DVDs for financial gain is illegal. That's what I meant."
but we still need to publicly call these thugs on it when they lie like this. if lies like this go unopposed, they become truth, because at least the MPAA has figured out that they need to win the war of public opinion, by portraying copiers as bloodthirsty thieves, and by blanket statements like "it is not legal to copy a DVD".
with "servlet container" and-or "JSP container". both tomcat and jetty are fine examples of servlet and JSP containers.
an app server, i.e., a server which serves up J2EE applications, is more generally thought of as a combined servlet, JSP, and EJB container. BEA, IBM WebSphere, etc, and JBoss are the real players in this space, but Oracle has their own app server rolling along now too. FYI, JBoss ships both a Jetty and Tomcat distribution.
Tomcat is the reference implementation for the Servlet and JSP container APIs. This means it is absolutely the standard. While Jetty is great for being "lighter" weight and more easily embedded, Tomcat would have to be my choice for "open source" servlet and JSP container.
And even now that blue screens have pretty much gone the way of the doodoo we still here about in Apple propoganda commercials.
the Apple propoganda commercials are probably not targeted at the commercial users, who would be using fairly rock-solid OSes like Windows 2000 Pro, and Windows XP. they are targetted at the people using Windows 95, Windows 98, and, g*d forbid, Windows Me.
when your grandma can get her Windows 98 blue screens down to "maybe once a month" then talk about propoganda. and i'm not talking just letting the OS sit there for a month. i'm talking plugging and unplugging USB devices, playing games, surfing the web via a modem, and writing and printing documents. that is the target audience for the ads, not power users running Windows 2000 and keep their hard drives defragmented, and ritualistically run virus- and port- scanners.
IRC.net documents advanced bots in 1994, let alone earlier, cruder bots which had been in use.
Bots are heavily in use in the corporate infrastructure, from auto-reply bots which answer emails based on formatting (think: subscribing to majordomo or even old NSI DNS requests), to complete bots which can answer "what color is the sand on Mars".
there should be stiff punishments for abusing the system like this, otherwise, what's to stop them? the only thing which gets hurt is their public image, and frankly that's not enough. I'm not talking prison terms, I'm talking stiff fines for such blatant misuse of the USPTO, to fund a future technical review board for the USPTO.
you can sell a GPL game without including all the GPL source on the CD or in the box. just include a "business reply mail" envelope which asks for a check for $10 for shipping, handling, and CD burning, and a source CD will be sent by mail.
Heinlein had a good suggestion...
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... in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
to paraphrase from a dim memory, basically, require Congress to have 2 separate houses. In one, laws are passed, requiring a 2/3 majority. In the other, laws are repealed, requiring a 1/3 minority. If a law cannot be supported by 2/3 of the people, what good is it? And if 1/3 of the people cannot tolerate its existence, why have it?
my own view would be very similar to the above, except that repealing a law would take a simple 1/2 majority, to prevent "thrashing".
anyway, what do I know? I'm just a stupid WC3-nicked troll.
PHP 4.3.0 is essential, because the new features of Zeus 2.0 (try/catch, etc, etc) I use heavily. However I have had all kinds of problems getting PHP to work with Apache2, since 2.0.29 seemingly broke PHP...
Jon Johansen has been indicted (as of Jan. 9, 2002), at the request of the US DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association (MAP), allies of the US Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). He could face two years in prison if convicted.
an average citizen, the average x-box owner is not. the percentage of x-box owners who would open the case to perform hardware mods is much, much, much greater than the percentage of the average citizenry who would do the same.
Q. I am a runner and would like to know whether it is possible to drink too much water?
A. Yes, there is a condition known as "water intoxication." It is usually associated with long distance events like running and cycling. And it's not an unusual problem. For example, water intoxication was reported in 18% of marathon runners and in 29% of the finishers in a Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in studies published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine and in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise respectively.
What happens is that as the athlete consumes large amounts of water over the course of the event, blood plasma (the liquid part of blood) increases. As this takes place, the salt content of the blood is diluted. At the same time, the athlete is losing salt by sweating. Consequently, the amount of salt available to the body tissues decreases over time to a point where the loss interferes with brain, heart, and muscle function.
The official name for this condition is hyponatremia. The symptoms generally mirror those of dehydration (apathy, confusion, nausea, and fatigue), although some individuals show no symptoms at all. If untreated, hyponatremia can lead to coma and even death.
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a woman walks into a bar. she asks the bartender for a sexual innuendo.
so the bartender gives it to her.
what is most interesting about that licensing list is the absence of a few names:
IBM
SUN
Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE
Imation
Maybe IBM could do the Linux community a favor and put 50K of their "X Billion dollars for Linux" into a perpetual MP3 license.
Although probably it's best for MP3 to die its death now. Long live OGG. If Imation's "RipGo!" Mini-CDR player had OGG, it would be in my possession right now.
good point, but by "thorough" and "near-random" I was a bit misleading. you do your "best effort" to evaluate, but you can't go and visit 5 developer sites and interview all their back references. there just isn't enough time when upper management wants the project started last week.
of course, the last time I tried to point out that if they want me to do my job right, I'll need more resources and time, I found myself looking for a new job pretty damned quick.
did you go to Purdue? I know that the only reason I hung out at ACM events there was because of one of those "few female IT" people.
:(
oh shit. I was a stalker
link so people don't think you're just making things up. But it is 100% true.
having evaluated bids like this a lot, i'll have to put "evaluated" in quotes. you don't have time to really go in depth and really check out each bid. if you get five bids, one is for $100,000, one if for $1,000, and the other three are for $10,000, that makes it an easy first cut down to the middle 3, because obviously the 100K people are insanely out of our budget, and the 1K people are obviously missing something.
this is how most government contracts work. ignore the high bidder, ignore the low bidder, and hope for the best when you pick one of the middles at near-random. you just don't have time to be thorough when you evaluate a bunch of bids.
then they need to do what Apple did with MacOS X -- except for x86.
I was mostly responding to the parent's remark: "left-wing Liberal comment". Saying all left-wing Liberals are nazi-esque socialists is not much different than saying all right-wing Conservatives are Pat Robertson-loving fascists. Neither generalisation gets us much of anywhere.
read the article. it is the ACLU, not the NRA, that is challenging the law.
"signal noise ratio falling" = 8 syllables. listen to "ratio" being pronounced at Merriam-Webster Online.
(taking the troll bait:) interesting. seeing as how I write applications for "app servers" for a ton of money, and it is interesting enough work to keep me happy and employed, I think I have a "clue". it ceases to be a buzzword when it pays for your house and car.
(troll bait for the troll:) at least I can figure out how to log in before posting.
'It is not legal to make a copy of a DVD now'
um... what planet is he living on? the fact that a powerful media executive can even make this public statement without facing very, very stiff fines is a testament to how powerful he is. he is a bold-faced liar, trying to shift the truth, trying to dissolve hundreds of years of fair use law which point out to him, and us, that it is completely legal to make a copy of a DVD for personal use. through CSS, etc, Valenti et al attempt to make things difficult, but I am sorry, Mr. Valenti, all your technology can't change the fact that it is still, and always will be, legal to make a copy of my own DVD for personal use.
that is, unless Mr. Valenti and his posse manage to successfully continue buying politicians and changing the laws.
what laws has Mr. Valenti broken by this blatant, public lie? since it wasn't under oath, probably none. and even then, he could probably just say (in private), "Oh, I meant commercially copying DVDs for financial gain is illegal. That's what I meant."
but we still need to publicly call these thugs on it when they lie like this. if lies like this go unopposed, they become truth, because at least the MPAA has figured out that they need to win the war of public opinion, by portraying copiers as bloodthirsty thieves, and by blanket statements like "it is not legal to copy a DVD".
with "servlet container" and-or "JSP container". both tomcat and jetty are fine examples of servlet and JSP containers.
an app server, i.e., a server which serves up J2EE applications, is more generally thought of as a combined servlet, JSP, and EJB container. BEA, IBM WebSphere, etc, and JBoss are the real players in this space, but Oracle has their own app server rolling along now too. FYI, JBoss ships both a Jetty and Tomcat distribution.
Tomcat is the reference implementation for the Servlet and JSP container APIs. This means it is absolutely the standard. While Jetty is great for being "lighter" weight and more easily embedded, Tomcat would have to be my choice for "open source" servlet and JSP container.
And even now that blue screens have pretty much gone the way of the doodoo we still here about in Apple propoganda commercials.
the Apple propoganda commercials are probably not targeted at the commercial users, who would be using fairly rock-solid OSes like Windows 2000 Pro, and Windows XP. they are targetted at the people using Windows 95, Windows 98, and, g*d forbid, Windows Me.
when your grandma can get her Windows 98 blue screens down to "maybe once a month" then talk about propoganda. and i'm not talking just letting the OS sit there for a month. i'm talking plugging and unplugging USB devices, playing games, surfing the web via a modem, and writing and printing documents. that is the target audience for the ads, not power users running Windows 2000 and keep their hard drives defragmented, and ritualistically run virus- and port- scanners.
IRC.net documents advanced bots in 1994, let alone earlier, cruder bots which had been in use.
Bots are heavily in use in the corporate infrastructure, from auto-reply bots which answer emails based on formatting (think: subscribing to majordomo or even old NSI DNS requests), to complete bots which can answer "what color is the sand on Mars".
There's even a Wired article about IRC bots.
there should be stiff punishments for abusing the system like this, otherwise, what's to stop them? the only thing which gets hurt is their public image, and frankly that's not enough. I'm not talking prison terms, I'm talking stiff fines for such blatant misuse of the USPTO, to fund a future technical review board for the USPTO.
you can sell a GPL game without including all the GPL source on the CD or in the box. just include a "business reply mail" envelope which asks for a check for $10 for shipping, handling, and CD burning, and a source CD will be sent by mail.
... in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
to paraphrase from a dim memory, basically, require Congress to have 2 separate houses. In one, laws are passed, requiring a 2/3 majority. In the other, laws are repealed, requiring a 1/3 minority. If a law cannot be supported by 2/3 of the people, what good is it? And if 1/3 of the people cannot tolerate its existence, why have it?
my own view would be very similar to the above, except that repealing a law would take a simple 1/2 majority, to prevent "thrashing".
anyway, what do I know? I'm just a stupid WC3-nicked troll.
all kinds of issues.
PHP 4.3.0 is essential, because the new features of Zeus 2.0 (try/catch, etc, etc) I use heavily. However I have had all kinds of problems getting PHP to work with Apache2, since 2.0.29 seemingly broke PHP...
The US doesn't tell any other country what they can have on their servers, and anyone that disagrees is an imbecile.
So why did Jon Johansen get arrested?
From the EFF page on the subject:
an average citizen, the average x-box owner is not. the percentage of x-box owners who would open the case to perform hardware mods is much, much, much greater than the percentage of the average citizenry who would do the same.
please post a comparison of distributed.net stats for Athlon XP, Pentium IV, single g4, and dual G4.
rankings:
1. dual g4
2. single g4
3. athlon xp
4. pentium iv
since all geeks care about is racing up the charts on distributed.net, what other rankings really matter?
Useless facts about the human body
some juicy bits:
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid
You loose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five pound flour bags
your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart!
have fun. remember kids, use knowledge responsibly.
5 pints is a lot less blood that I have in my body. you might want to see what other people can accomplish with a few simple search engine queries.
hint: the human body has about 6 quarts of blood.
for a quick refresh on pints and quarts hit that link.
hint: there are 2 pints in a quart.
so 5 pints is 2.5 quarts, which is less than half of the amount of blood in the human body.
that is the funniest FP i've ever seen. well, it's close, at least. whatever moderator threw it an offtopic obviously has some humor issues.