The new version targets power generating stations running Win2k and leaves the following line in the event log:
The Continue Generating Power For Most Of North America Server service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
You won't see your computer. You will have a reflective-surface tablet on which you interact graphically. It is in wireless contact with storage and other bulk that are hidden in a box that is itself hidden in a closet or in some out of the way corner. In addition to the tablet, you will have a variety of other everyday objects that are also in contact with the box, each reporting your use, gestures, speech, or what have you to the main box. Some of these devices will produce sounds, vibrations, or have graphic displays on their surfaces to help you do whatever you are doing with them.
Life will start looking more like it did in the middle of the last century, as computers disappear from sight and banal old devices start containing little bits of a massively distributed system.
I won't miss sitting at a keyboard and staring fixedly at a monitor, that's for sure.
I meant all three different versions on each CD, so that each friend gets them all. This way it doesn't matter what system they have, they will have the right version, at least in principle.
Teach OpenOffice and distribute CDs of it. Burn CDs with the Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac versions, and give each student three disks so that they give a couple away to friends.
I have "Digital Texturing and Painting," and can also vouch for it. It is an excellent book. The first few chapters are useful for any visual artist, regardless of whether she will be doing CG or not.
O'Reilly's MySQL book isn't so bad
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Their PostgreSQL book is incomparably worse. The first edition is essentially useless.
The playing field is not level? That is ridiculous. Open Source development has few obstacles from MS, and the SCO problem will be an unpleasant memory in a year regardless of the outcome. More important obstacles involve having us as users and developers participate in the Open Source process, and I am ashamed to admit that I have not participated.
OSS is free, MS products are expensive. In principle at least, that is a tremendous obstacle for MS. The main problems for OSS today are 1) making an OS product that is easier to install, use, and maintain than Windows XP, and 2) make OpenOffice easier to use than MS Office, and able to easily share files with it. This has to be true for the most naive and computer-phobic users.
Hello everybody! Those two conditions have not been met!
The idea of giving OSS a multi-billion dollar enema is absolutely terrible. It will guarantee corruption, bureaucracy, and irrelevance. OSS will become the IT equivalent of a corrupt Third-World dictatorship. When that happens, MS wins again.
I agree with those who feel it is more of an economic exploitation issue. Younger programmers are cheaper and definitely easier to exploit. It's much easier to push a younger person's buttons than an equally intelligent older person's.
Also, managers age as they get up the ranks, and have kids of their own. This process is rich with learning how to coerce, distract, convince, herd, cajole, and generally direct the behavior of both children and younger coworkers.
At successful companies I've worked at, though, when a project is absolutely critical to the company revenue stream, ageism either vanishes or even gets partially reverted. When lots of money is involved, nobody gives a flying fuck whether you are a teenager or an old fart. If you can do the work quickly, efficiently, and above all correctly, the job is yours.
Philips announced a new line of consumer video and audio products today. The new product line, named Alien Rectal Probe Collection, is an open-ended set of technologies that will allow all physical objects to contain an HDTV display with full 5 channel sound and CD/DVD players and recorders, with optional wireless networking technology. There is no limit to where these devices can be installed, and Philips' consumer surveys indicate that consumers are awaiting their arrival in stores with great excitement.
Indeed, a crowd in Tokyo conservatively estimated at estimated at 220,000 to 250,000, took to the streets to loudly clamor for the products. Scores of cars were turned over and burned, shops were broken into and looted, windows smashed, many set on fire. Several entire city blocks were set ablaze as the exuberant crowd chanted pro-HDTV songs and waved signs and banners reading "We want a TV device in all commercial products without exception," and "MP3s must be playable at all times from all possible everyday objects," and "There is nothing more important than watching TV and listening to Pop music, not sex, not world peace, not food, not religion, and certainly not politics."
The scene was repeated over and over around the world. In New York, well over half a million people flooded the streets in an area roughly centered around Times Square. Again, cars were burned, buildings looted and torched, and a vast array of demands raucously chanted and displayed on all manner of signs, banners, placards, flags, effigies, etc. "Pencils must all have 16x9 format displays," "Toilet Paper must have Full-Motion Video Displays on Each Square of Paper, Even at the Expense of Sound," "Fruits and Vegetables Wired at Last," "TV 24/7/365 Everywhere, and Damn the Commercials," read some of the signs. A group of alleged proctologists demonstrated a disturbing array of HDTV-enabled diagnostic equipment. Police were forced to detain a contingent of scantily clad strippers, all of whom were playing MP3s at full volume, the sound apparently emanating from somewhere between their legs.
The multitudes quickly became unruly, even hysterical. Dozens of people were overcome with emotion as they shouted their demands, so great was their excitement at the prospect of being able to watch TV and listen to music using any arbitrary object in their immediate proximity. Many dropped to their knees and passionately praised any number of deities and spiritual entites. As the demonstrations progressed, thousands of people in each of the world's major capitals were trampled to death or fell victim to heat exhaustion. Scuffles became fights, and fights became pitched battles. In Alabama, hundreds of pistol- and shotgun-wielding demonstrators, demanding that either their firearms or ammunition be equipped with the full line of Philips' video, audeo, and networking products, initiated a firefight with local National Guard troops. At the time of this writing several pockets of resistance ere holding fast in the downtown area, with new foci appearing in suburban areas. Alabama Gov. Dick Brain was expected to make a televised address at 10 pm local time.
An electronic lock? Wow. Real useful on a rainy night with a power outage and dirty detectors and you're half drunk and half asleep. Or worse, there is some sort of emergency. The rest of it is just expensive crap to handle music and TV. Just more crass exploitative bullshit to keep other people's hands in your wallet.
This is like those Popular Science documentaries from the mid-20th century showing all the idiotic things people thought we would be doing today.
But I bet I will have to pay $99 to the son of a bitch whenever I buy hardware for my GNU/Linux-controlled house...
The "home of the future" is not a PVCR, it is a PDA for everyone in the house. It is vastly more useful for you to access your schedule, contacts, and random data than to be able to request a song or a TV show from anywhere in the home. These people don't get it. Bill Gates and his people don't know anything more about this sort of thing than the average geek. Probably less, because he has no economic constraints, and has staff take care of all the mundane tasks and activities to which such a system would devote most of its functionality.
But I bet I will be forced to occasionally pay the son of a bitch $99 when I buy hardware for my GNU/Linux-controlled house...
Actually, frequent use of a trademark is exactly what does render it generic.
No, no, no! It must be accompanied by the trademark's owner not maintaining it as an actively defended trademark. Frequent use in and of itself is not enough! See my other posts!
Yeah really.. damn those facts. Like the fact that the WIPO site mentions nothing about cola specifically. Or the fact that I wasn't talking about Coke being generic but COLA - coke being a flavor of cola (referred to as Coca Cola or Coke for short). Coca:FreeBSD::Pepsi:Linux, Coca and Pepsi being flavors of Cola, FreeBSD and Linux being flavors of Unix. Does that make sense?
No, it doesn't. We are talking about trademark disputes. Nobody claims "cola" is trademarked.
Your NetBSD link goes nowhere (blank), and the OpenGroup site is about the SCO vs. IBM case, and is clarifying that SCO does not own the UNIX trademark. Apple's never claimed to own the UNIX trademark themselves, so I really don't see how that's relevant.
Sorry about the link,/. seemed to be inserting spaces in the middle of the URL (?). Go to google and search on "unix trademark" (without the quotes). There's plenty. The OpenGroup site was not "about" SCO vs. IBM, it was about the unix trademark and its defensibility, mentioning the SCO and IBM litigation in that light. Again, the unix search will give you additional OpenGroup links.
Complainant is the owner of the COKE Trademark and the U.S. Trademark Registration Number 415755 for the mark COKE. The widespread use of the COKE trademark is undisputed. The "Coke" trademark has come to symbolize the goodwill and reputation built by The Coca-Cola Company over many years is widely recognized.
It's already happened. Much like making a xerox or using a kleenex.
Aha! You don't even understand your own remark. Casual speech and commercial speech are not the same, trademarkwise. You can call a soda a coke until you're blue in the face, and that's fine. Try marketing a beverage using the trademark "Coke," and you will soon find it's not nearly as kosher. Same with kleenex, xerox, etc.
Apple, meanwhile, is countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic.
Based on what? Are we to understand that frequent use of a trademark renders it generic? That is utterly preposterous. The Unix trademark is as zealously defended as the law requires, and beyond any reasonable doubt it is most certainly not generic. Is "Volkswagen" generic? How about "Coke" when referring to a beverage? Try it out in the marketplace and see how far you get.
On top of that, the poor schmuck may even have to spend some money to get it back. On the plus side,/. might be able to charge a fee for site load testing.
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Most common "problem" I have seen is that people do the following:
1)Get a computer, with OS and some software installed
2)Use the computer
3)If buy commercial software, install it, hitting OK every time it appears
4)If download arbitrary software from the net, install it, hitting OK every time it appears
5) If computer seems sluggish or something seems wrong, do one or more of the following:
- Go to the Program Files directory (of course it's Windows) and delete one or more directories containing programs you recall having installed recently
- Hunt around the hard disk and delete things that don't look right
- Buy software that supposedly fixes your system, and run it several times consecutively, choosing different options each time
- Reboot
- Re-install the operating system
6) Go to 2)This algorithm is run continuously for several years.
The Continue Generating Power For Most Of North America Server service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.
...people freaked out when they turned the power grid on
Don't laugh too hard, you may be right.
Who needs terrorists when we can fuck ourselves up far more thoroughly.
Life will start looking more like it did in the middle of the last century, as computers disappear from sight and banal old devices start containing little bits of a massively distributed system.
I won't miss sitting at a keyboard and staring fixedly at a monitor, that's for sure.
IANAL I am a totally anal person; I have severe neuroses.
Machinima A Chinese expression meaning, roughly, What?! A machine?! You must be joking!
Sorry for the ambiguity...
Free. Gratis. Libre.
Software y Libertad!
La computadora es de quien la trabaja!
I have "Digital Texturing and Painting," and can also vouch for it. It is an excellent book. The first few chapters are useful for any visual artist, regardless of whether she will be doing CG or not.
Their PostgreSQL book is incomparably worse. The first edition is essentially useless.
OSS is free, MS products are expensive. In principle at least, that is a tremendous obstacle for MS. The main problems for OSS today are 1) making an OS product that is easier to install, use, and maintain than Windows XP, and 2) make OpenOffice easier to use than MS Office, and able to easily share files with it. This has to be true for the most naive and computer-phobic users.
Hello everybody! Those two conditions have not been met!
The idea of giving OSS a multi-billion dollar enema is absolutely terrible. It will guarantee corruption, bureaucracy, and irrelevance. OSS will become the IT equivalent of a corrupt Third-World dictatorship. When that happens, MS wins again.
Also, managers age as they get up the ranks, and have kids of their own. This process is rich with learning how to coerce, distract, convince, herd, cajole, and generally direct the behavior of both children and younger coworkers.
At successful companies I've worked at, though, when a project is absolutely critical to the company revenue stream, ageism either vanishes or even gets partially reverted. When lots of money is involved, nobody gives a flying fuck whether you are a teenager or an old fart. If you can do the work quickly, efficiently, and above all correctly, the job is yours.
Indeed, a crowd in Tokyo conservatively estimated at estimated at 220,000 to 250,000, took to the streets to loudly clamor for the products. Scores of cars were turned over and burned, shops were broken into and looted, windows smashed, many set on fire. Several entire city blocks were set ablaze as the exuberant crowd chanted pro-HDTV songs and waved signs and banners reading "We want a TV device in all commercial products without exception," and "MP3s must be playable at all times from all possible everyday objects," and "There is nothing more important than watching TV and listening to Pop music, not sex, not world peace, not food, not religion, and certainly not politics."
The scene was repeated over and over around the world. In New York, well over half a million people flooded the streets in an area roughly centered around Times Square. Again, cars were burned, buildings looted and torched, and a vast array of demands raucously chanted and displayed on all manner of signs, banners, placards, flags, effigies, etc. "Pencils must all have 16x9 format displays," "Toilet Paper must have Full-Motion Video Displays on Each Square of Paper, Even at the Expense of Sound," "Fruits and Vegetables Wired at Last," "TV 24/7/365 Everywhere, and Damn the Commercials," read some of the signs. A group of alleged proctologists demonstrated a disturbing array of HDTV-enabled diagnostic equipment. Police were forced to detain a contingent of scantily clad strippers, all of whom were playing MP3s at full volume, the sound apparently emanating from somewhere between their legs.
The multitudes quickly became unruly, even hysterical. Dozens of people were overcome with emotion as they shouted their demands, so great was their excitement at the prospect of being able to watch TV and listen to music using any arbitrary object in their immediate proximity. Many dropped to their knees and passionately praised any number of deities and spiritual entites. As the demonstrations progressed, thousands of people in each of the world's major capitals were trampled to death or fell victim to heat exhaustion. Scuffles became fights, and fights became pitched battles. In Alabama, hundreds of pistol- and shotgun-wielding demonstrators, demanding that either their firearms or ammunition be equipped with the full line of Philips' video, audeo, and networking products, initiated a firefight with local National Guard troops. At the time of this writing several pockets of resistance ere holding fast in the downtown area, with new foci appearing in suburban areas. Alabama Gov. Dick Brain was expected to make a televised address at 10 pm local time.
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But I bet I will have to pay $99 to the son of a bitch whenever I buy hardware for my GNU/Linux-controlled house... The "home of the future" is not a PVCR, it is a PDA for everyone in the house. It is vastly more useful for you to access your schedule, contacts, and random data than to be able to request a song or a TV show from anywhere in the home. These people don't get it. Bill Gates and his people don't know anything more about this sort of thing than the average geek. Probably less, because he has no economic constraints, and has staff take care of all the mundane tasks and activities to which such a system would devote most of its functionality.
But I bet I will be forced to occasionally pay the son of a bitch $99 when I buy hardware for my GNU/Linux-controlled house...
No, no, no! It must be accompanied by the trademark's owner not maintaining it as an actively defended trademark. Frequent use in and of itself is not enough! See my other posts!
They're already assholes.
I'm not so sure. I don't think the OpenGroup has been sloppy/lazy enough:
criteria for trademark loss
one that lists Unix
However, just to freak you out, find unix as a trademark for things other than operating systems
No, it doesn't. We are talking about trademark disputes. Nobody claims "cola" is trademarked.
Your NetBSD link goes nowhere (blank), and the OpenGroup site is about the SCO vs. IBM case, and is clarifying that SCO does not own the UNIX trademark. Apple's never claimed to own the UNIX trademark themselves, so I really don't see how that's relevant.
Sorry about the link, /. seemed to be inserting spaces in the middle of the URL (?). Go to google and search on "unix trademark" (without the quotes). There's plenty. The OpenGroup site was not "about" SCO vs. IBM, it was about the unix trademark and its defensibility, mentioning the SCO and IBM litigation in that light. Again, the unix search will give you additional OpenGroup links.
That's hilarious! You just can't make up stuff like that.
see WIPO
As to Unix:
NetBSDOpenGroup
Nothing like facts to really mess up your argument.
Aha! You don't even understand your own remark. Casual speech and commercial speech are not the same, trademarkwise. You can call a soda a coke until you're blue in the face, and that's fine. Try marketing a beverage using the trademark "Coke," and you will soon find it's not nearly as kosher. Same with kleenex, xerox, etc.
Based on what? Are we to understand that frequent use of a trademark renders it generic? That is utterly preposterous. The Unix trademark is as zealously defended as the law requires, and beyond any reasonable doubt it is most certainly not generic. Is "Volkswagen" generic? How about "Coke" when referring to a beverage? Try it out in the marketplace and see how far you get.
Get real, folks.
On top of that, the poor schmuck may even have to spend some money to get it back. On the plus side, /. might be able to charge a fee for site load testing.
Funny you should mention that. I was reading Andrei Alexandrescu's Modern C++ Design, a perverse festival of C++ templates, as I read your post!
BTW, the bald, naked saint would rap your knuckles with his staff for using the less type-safe python.