Considering that in the last 30 years we have gone through several different types of media anything that is stored on anything obsolute is going to be a problem. You buy this bad boy and then you can recover those documents on research that was conducted in 1980. It seems that there is some money to be made recovering old data Salon did this article, and I read, but cannot find another recent article on a guy who collects older computers, who makes money renting them out, so that he convert their data to a better format.
"Congressman Adam Smith's staff contacted Open Source Public Policy advocates around 6:00pm EDT to say they were flooded by calls from reporters about the letter that sparked this thread. Many staffers of the 67 Congressman who signed are now claiming they didn't know what they were signing and the letter is being withdrawn.
The server room for hell was this place, it was an old government building that had piss poor wiring. I was called in to rebuild the servers because 3 out of 4 servers had somehow got screwed up. After fixing them, and making sure that they all worked and load-balanced correctly I was just waiting for time to pass one evening when the UPS started going off. It would go on like this for 1 to 2 hours in the evening and then stop. It seems that sometimes the outlets would just go wako and stop supplying electricity. It was so annoying that the support people who used the room unplugged the servers from the UPS and would plug them into the wall so they would not have to listen the UPS switching to backup. Give you one guess why these servers were getting screwed up and had poor uptime...:)
The Nazi's killed 6 million Jews, but if you look here article, they killed 5 million others. To many think that just the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's, but there were just the easiest to target.
We'll see a lot of "dumb patent clerk" posts. But I think the problem is fundamental to the patent system and can't be fixed with smarter patent clerks.
That is true, it cannot and will not be fixed by smarter patent clerks because I own a patent out on them and refuse to license it.
No, no you got it right the first time, dump as much trash as long as the cash flows on in.
The thing most people forget was that alot of the modern industrial countries had to go through this phase to get to were they are. Somehow people believe(especially in the US), that the poorest of the poor countries should start at the minimum standards that we are currently are at, instead of realizing they ain't got no money.
Do I like the fact that these people are treated horribly, paid poorly, and live and work what we would consider a hell-hole, NO! The thing everyone seems to ignore is how to develop a developing economy. The two things China has going for it are cheap labor and are willing to ignore environmental controls, that is really what China is trading, no matter what they make
The government cares because you will be in trouble when the virtually onmipotent IRS comes after your virtual ass for not including the income from selling that +10 Magic Sword of Dragon-Slaying on e-bay.
And don't even get me started on them trying to track you down for Player-Killing, malicously attempting to hurt another persons potential income. (keeping a player from earning a living selling stuff on E-bay)
I am sure that the correct title should be Humans with Pig Genes. The US Government has already done a study proving this a long time ago. So americans should be prety to take advantage of organ transplants from pigs any day now.
I just saw someone's solution to this in my mind. I was just picturing someone's boss saying that they cannot use this font, because they are blind and the boss replying well just make it bigger.
Does not help if you don't have a carrot to motivate people either. If people have no enthusiam for the job, that is one thing. If they don't get up to speed they are not being productive which actually hurts others. At that point you would need to fire some people because they need to realize that you are serious and that it needs to get done, that it is not just another job.
Outnumber the old people. The elderly put in the most votes, so you need to outnumber then by a lot.
I think that one of the best things that the US could do is require everyone eligible to vote for federal and state elections. The thing I hate the most about elections is that they make it a hassle and a chore to do instead of a way of expressing ones opinion.
The fallacy of this argument is that people will only do something if they are going to get patent. It ignores the fact ALOT of developments do not come from corporations as copyrights, or patents as intent to make money.
Look at how many people are into music, and theater. Most will never make anywhere near a living doing it, yet somehow there are hundreds or thousands of entertainers out there. What about writers, there are tons of people who write and don't get published, there are alot that do also. Most of them don't make a decent living doing that either, yet they seem do it anyways.
Hell, like at Linus, he was not dreaming of the Big Payday when he started working on Linux, and he still is not a multi-millionare and probably will never get rich off his work contributed to Linux, yet he does it anyways.
The people who somehow believe that the world would stop turning because there is not some corporation not making a buck off it are the people are the least likely to contribute and the most likely to pigback on someone else's work. They don't understand why people do the things they do, which is just because they want too.
If Microsoft BSD-licensed Windows and released the source, there'd be a ton of people on here talking about how it was an attempt to crush Free Software by making BSD licensing more popular than the GPL.:-)
Looks like you have a story submital waiting to be posted here.
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I am not sure I like this,
In patrol mode, the bipedal robot acts as a home security system, scoping out your house for intruders.
These were called dogs. Sometimes they are known as the family dog to most people.
The robot uses the owner's home computer and Internet connection to answer questions or help a human shop online.
Used to be a local teenager called a geek, sometimes the child would be yours.
The robot can also upload everything it hears and sees to the Internet.
These were called little brothers, except the did not tell the whole world through the internet. Maybe they do now, I donna know.
It can also act as a personal digital assistant, reminding the owner of appointments.
These are called wives, and they can be more fun than just reminding your of appointments, *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*!
So basically you can replace most any person in your household with a $1,500 robot. I guess we really don't need other living beings at home.
Considering that in the last 30 years we have gone through several different types of media anything that is stored on anything obsolute is going to be a problem. You buy this bad boy and then you can recover those documents on research that was conducted in 1980. It seems that there is some money to be made recovering old data Salon did this article, and I read, but cannot find another recent article on a guy who collects older computers, who makes money renting them out, so that he convert their data to a better format.
The should start producing version 8 instead of 7, they would not want to be behind MSN!
I other words, it will be sued by MPAA by tomorrow.
This qoute just says it all,
"Congressman Adam Smith's staff contacted Open Source Public Policy advocates around 6:00pm EDT to say they were flooded by calls from reporters about the letter that sparked this thread. Many staffers of the 67 Congressman who signed are now claiming they didn't know what they were signing and the letter is being withdrawn.
It does not get much better than that!
I am sure that the 3 or 4 people from Slashdot will be on the move as we speak in the Tacomobile to counter this threat to freedom!
The server room for hell was this place, it was an old government building that had piss poor wiring. I was called in to rebuild the servers because 3 out of 4 servers had somehow got screwed up. After fixing them, and making sure that they all worked and load-balanced correctly I was just waiting for time to pass one evening when the UPS started going off. It would go on like this for 1 to 2 hours in the evening and then stop. It seems that sometimes the outlets would just go wako and stop supplying electricity. It was so annoying that the support people who used the room unplugged the servers from the UPS and would plug them into the wall so they would not have to listen the UPS switching to backup. Give you one guess why these servers were getting screwed up and had poor uptime... :)
bestrate loan company makes a "paternship" with joe's porn palace and before you know it your p*nis is being enlarged!
I feel better now, I orginially thought I had elephantitus but now I know it was Joe's Porn Palace!
The Nazi's killed 6 million Jews, but if you look here article, they killed 5 million others. To many think that just the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's, but there were just the easiest to target.
We'll see a lot of "dumb patent clerk" posts. But I think the problem is fundamental to the patent system and can't be fixed with smarter patent clerks.
That is true, it cannot and will not be fixed by smarter patent clerks because I own a patent out on them and refuse to license it.
*Cough* Bullsh*t!
Market forces are best at exploiting new discoveries, not creating them.
No, no you got it right the first time, dump as much trash as long as the cash flows on in.
The thing most people forget was that alot of the modern industrial countries had to go through this phase to get to were they are. Somehow people believe(especially in the US), that the poorest of the poor countries should start at the minimum standards that we are currently are at, instead of realizing they ain't got no money.
Do I like the fact that these people are treated horribly, paid poorly, and live and work what we would consider a hell-hole, NO! The thing everyone seems to ignore is how to develop a developing economy. The two things China has going for it are cheap labor and are willing to ignore environmental controls, that is really what China is trading, no matter what they make
The Link to the Google Cache is here, since it appears to have been /.
The government cares because you will be in trouble when the virtually onmipotent IRS comes after your virtual ass for not including the income from selling that +10 Magic Sword of Dragon-Slaying on e-bay.
And don't even get me started on them trying to track you down for Player-Killing, malicously attempting to hurt another persons potential income. (keeping a player from earning a living selling stuff on E-bay)
I am sure that the correct title should be Humans with Pig Genes. The US Government has already done a study proving this a long time ago. So americans should be prety to take advantage of organ transplants from pigs any day now.
I just saw someone's solution to this in my mind. I was just picturing someone's boss saying that they cannot use this font, because they are blind and the boss replying well just make it bigger.
Does not help if you don't have a carrot to motivate people either. If people have no enthusiam for the job, that is one thing. If they don't get up to speed they are not being productive which actually hurts others. At that point you would need to fire some people because they need to realize that you are serious and that it needs to get done, that it is not just another job.
Outnumber the old people. The elderly put in the most votes, so you need to outnumber then by a lot.
I think that one of the best things that the US could do is require everyone eligible to vote for federal and state elections. The thing I hate the most about elections is that they make it a hassle and a chore to do instead of a way of expressing ones opinion.
The fallacy of this argument is that people will only do something if they are going to get patent. It ignores the fact ALOT of developments do not come from corporations as copyrights, or patents as intent to make money.
Look at how many people are into music, and theater. Most will never make anywhere near a living doing it, yet somehow there are hundreds or thousands of entertainers out there. What about writers, there are tons of people who write and don't get published, there are alot that do also. Most of them don't make a decent living doing that either, yet they seem do it anyways.
Hell, like at Linus, he was not dreaming of the Big Payday when he started working on Linux, and he still is not a multi-millionare and probably will never get rich off his work contributed to Linux, yet he does it anyways.
The people who somehow believe that the world would stop turning because there is not some corporation not making a buck off it are the people are the least likely to contribute and the most likely to pigback on someone else's work. They don't understand why people do the things they do, which is just because they want too.
Great, instead of getting SPAM for webcams of pretty women, it is now spammers in the gulag.
Well the mafia made money breaking legs/arm/fingers. I guess it is OK if they can make money at it.
The smart move would be to have an X-Box to actually play X-Box software. I somhoe doubt that without an X-Box that people will buy X-Box software.
I feel threatened by his personal hygiene, or at least his arm pits.
If Microsoft BSD-licensed Windows and released the source, there'd be a ton of people on here talking about how it was an attempt to crush Free Software by making BSD licensing more popular than the GPL. :-)
Looks like you have a story submital waiting to be posted here.
The typical geeky activity of playing 16 hours a day of counter-strike is out then.