If they're out there, we certaintly don't intrest them much... unless if they're at the space-age version of 1500 - 1800 Britain, in which case any place with life will do.
And I'll be a bad slashdotter and not look for them (I'm tired!) but I do believe that a couple years back, a professor in England released a tech timeline that would document the progression of technology for the next century and beyond. He was something like 80% correct in his predictions up till that point, so they sort of carried weight. Anyhow... sure nanotech will be a great thing, but I quiver to think of the applications of this in war... which I believe in that timeline came quickly after the devlopment of the tech.
Links, anyone, anyone?
Can't wait for the worm that's written that makes every home in America play Hanson at the same time, or some other like-annoying band that will drive the general populace insane, just long enough for them to all call tech-support at the same time.
Well see, in Microsoft's eyes, they are ahead. Unfortunately for them though, the world is a circle and not flat, so while Microsoft thinks they are ahead of the spammers, infact, the spammers have already lapped them a few times, and they just haven't noticed yet, still thinking their somewhere way back there in Asia.
So what's the RIAA going to do with hundreds of thousands, and if other ISPs follow - tens of millions, of seperate teenagers downloading music? Go after each and every one of them? Try it. Just. Try. It.
And don't forget that many of those veterans were then sent to Florida to build U.S. Highway 1 from Miami to Key West, and lots of them wound up dying for their efforts in the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which also happened to be the strongest hurricane ever to strike the U.S. (max winds 200mph sustained), sending an already late rescue train into the Gulf of Mexico.
I live in the Upper Pinnusela of Michigan (hold up your left hand... then imagine a thumb sticking horizontally above the hand...), and while the entire trip from Detroit to Sault Ste. Marie is covered by cell phone towers and in theory, reception, calls are notorious for dropping out in certain places along I-75 that aren't even all that hilly or provide terrain that would block signals.
I really don't see any decent reason for packing cell-phones with so many features. How about making the cell phone have better reception so call-drops are less frequent, instead of being able to download mp3s to play them on the cellphone speakers. It's extra features like that which turn it into more of a novelty item than something that could have pratical use. I would like my phone to dial numbers, call people, and sound clear... I really don't see the use in downloading quake or Microsoft patches for security so no one can run illegal scripts off my cellphone if I happen to be using it for a server or something.
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Lawyers representing LinuxTag, the German Linux group, told SCO on May 23 that the Lindon, Utah-based company was engaging in unfair competitive practices when it sent to 1,500 large companies letters that said using Linux could pose legal problems because SCO proprietary Unix source code had been copied into Linux, according to a statement from the group.
"SCO must not be allowed to damage its competitors by unsubstantiated claims, to intimidate their customers and to inflict lasting damage on the reputation of GNU/Linux as an open platform," LinuxTag's Michael Kleinhenz said in the statement. LinuxTag demanded SCO make its evidence public by May 30 or retract its claims.
SCO removed copies of that letter from its Web sites as a result, but later, LinuxTag succeeded in obtaining a temporary restraining order against SCO, said Ryan Tibbitts, SCO's newly appointed chief legal counsel. Because SCO hasn't been able to see the actual contents of the order, the company ordered the entire site shut down to be on the safe side, he said.
That whole comment and the "What would Elvis do to stop piracy?" really annoys me to death. The Jihad comment for taking the word of the month (you know, terror, evil people, so on, so forth), and appling it to something that doesn't relate in the least.
Why doesn't the industry start talking about real leaks in their profits? Bad press for suing kids for $97 billion comes to mind, a price fixing scandal in the mid 90's gets on that list too, but above all, the state of music, the state of repetative crap that continues to be put out... it's like if 31 flavors determined that most people liked choclate and vanilla. You could get those two and only those two flavors at the counter. The others were still available, but you would have to go to black-market 31 flavors to enjoy it, all the while being called a criminal for spending money you never would have spent if you never made the effort to look for more flavors in the first place.
The industry must nevertheless also content itself with conducting business on a more modest scale, painful though the process might be. No one needs to spend in excess of $40 million on a record, as Sony did with Michael Jackson's 2001 flop, Invincible, for instance, when the White Stripes can muster a hit record for $10,000.
That's because the White Stripes is good, and Michael Jackson is getting old. By the way, I like how they skip mentioning that the "flop" sold many millions of records, just not on the same scale as previous, and I don't believe that "Elephant" (latest White Stripes) has cracked 1 million sold anywhere yet...
I look at this as nothing more than a bill with good intentions and very little teeth. If one country is not able to force its laws over the internet (ex. DMCA sure doesn't stop illegal copies of everything to sit on servers in China), then one law saying no to spammers will basically have the same effect. You need some sort of internet standard or governing body, something that could be better equipped to handle and enforce these laws, but a central organization structure goes against the idea of the internet in the first place. You're left with the good, with some bad that will be extremely hard to get rid of, if possible at all.
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When I think of real bugs in computers... I'm drawn to the ants that were nesting in the computer in the movie Pi.
So where's the caucus to keep these "watchdogs" from over-abusing their powers, jailing kids who accidentally mention the words "Harry Potter" somewhere online, or threaten to shut down universities' internet connections during finals because one of the professors may have a file that might be illgal according to some law.
You know, protection from overbearing abuse, the rules that this country is based on... where's the caucus to protect people and their rights?
Since when did people only apply to people who were located in large office towers and made millions a year, scamming average people for all they are worth.
Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor...
No matter how good you made the card, assuming it would be a dual video card/processor, you would be stuck in a situation like if you were to buy a motherboard with tons of onboard stuff on it, like a video card, for example. No matter how much ram you put in it, the video card's power will never be quite as good as if you were to buy a separate video card of comparable power and plug it into the motherboard. The same would probably be true for a video card/processor combo.
...those usually are void once the company goes under. You basically have a lifetime guarentee as long as the company is around, which is why it only really means something when the company has been around a long time, like Sears for example.
If the agreement is anything like that, the buyers of the assets can in theory say that since the original company is gone, they don't have to continue the service but they can offer them a new service, just like the old one, at a higher price.
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If I added a "lol", would you have gotten it?
$500? Didn't you hear that Photoshop is now part of the free software movement now?
If they're out there, we certaintly don't intrest them much... unless if they're at the space-age version of 1500 - 1800 Britain, in which case any place with life will do.
The worst they'll do is use us for opium, anyhow.
And I'll be a bad slashdotter and not look for them (I'm tired!) but I do believe that a couple years back, a professor in England released a tech timeline that would document the progression of technology for the next century and beyond. He was something like 80% correct in his predictions up till that point, so they sort of carried weight. Anyhow... sure nanotech will be a great thing, but I quiver to think of the applications of this in war... which I believe in that timeline came quickly after the devlopment of the tech. Links, anyone, anyone?
Can't wait for the worm that's written that makes every home in America play Hanson at the same time, or some other like-annoying band that will drive the general populace insane, just long enough for them to all call tech-support at the same time.
Well see, in Microsoft's eyes, they are ahead. Unfortunately for them though, the world is a circle and not flat, so while Microsoft thinks they are ahead of the spammers, infact, the spammers have already lapped them a few times, and they just haven't noticed yet, still thinking their somewhere way back there in Asia.
At least it wasn't room 101 of the hotel. Please don't kill my karma... *cowers in corner*
So what's the RIAA going to do with hundreds of thousands, and if other ISPs follow - tens of millions, of seperate teenagers downloading music? Go after each and every one of them? Try it. Just. Try. It.
And don't forget that many of those veterans were then sent to Florida to build U.S. Highway 1 from Miami to Key West, and lots of them wound up dying for their efforts in the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which also happened to be the strongest hurricane ever to strike the U.S. (max winds 200mph sustained), sending an already late rescue train into the Gulf of Mexico.
If in 2011 the military is sent in to police public demonstrations then that's not the country I feel like living in. You can have it.
I live in the Upper Pinnusela of Michigan (hold up your left hand... then imagine a thumb sticking horizontally above the hand...), and while the entire trip from Detroit to Sault Ste. Marie is covered by cell phone towers and in theory, reception, calls are notorious for dropping out in certain places along I-75 that aren't even all that hilly or provide terrain that would block signals.
I really don't see any decent reason for packing cell-phones with so many features. How about making the cell phone have better reception so call-drops are less frequent, instead of being able to download mp3s to play them on the cellphone speakers. It's extra features like that which turn it into more of a novelty item than something that could have pratical use. I would like my phone to dial numbers, call people, and sound clear... I really don't see the use in downloading quake or Microsoft patches for security so no one can run illegal scripts off my cellphone if I happen to be using it for a server or something.
Legal action hits SCO Web site
Lawyers representing LinuxTag, the German Linux group, told SCO on May 23 that the Lindon, Utah-based company was engaging in unfair competitive practices when it sent to 1,500 large companies letters that said using Linux could pose legal problems because SCO proprietary Unix source code had been copied into Linux, according to a statement from the group.
"SCO must not be allowed to damage its competitors by unsubstantiated claims, to intimidate their customers and to inflict lasting damage on the reputation of GNU/Linux as an open platform," LinuxTag's Michael Kleinhenz said in the statement. LinuxTag demanded SCO make its evidence public by May 30 or retract its claims.
SCO removed copies of that letter from its Web sites as a result, but later, LinuxTag succeeded in obtaining a temporary restraining order against SCO, said Ryan Tibbitts, SCO's newly appointed chief legal counsel. Because SCO hasn't been able to see the actual contents of the order, the company ordered the entire site shut down to be on the safe side, he said.
Well there is Jeb Bush in Florida... you may remember him as the guy who oversaw the mucking up of the election of 2000.
Jukebox Jihad
That whole comment and the "What would Elvis do to stop piracy?" really annoys me to death. The Jihad comment for taking the word of the month (you know, terror, evil people, so on, so forth), and appling it to something that doesn't relate in the least.
Why doesn't the industry start talking about real leaks in their profits? Bad press for suing kids for $97 billion comes to mind, a price fixing scandal in the mid 90's gets on that list too, but above all, the state of music, the state of repetative crap that continues to be put out... it's like if 31 flavors determined that most people liked choclate and vanilla. You could get those two and only those two flavors at the counter. The others were still available, but you would have to go to black-market 31 flavors to enjoy it, all the while being called a criminal for spending money you never would have spent if you never made the effort to look for more flavors in the first place.
The industry must nevertheless also content itself with conducting business on a more modest scale, painful though the process might be. No one needs to spend in excess of $40 million on a record, as Sony did with Michael Jackson's 2001 flop, Invincible, for instance, when the White Stripes can muster a hit record for $10,000.
That's because the White Stripes is good, and Michael Jackson is getting old. By the way, I like how they skip mentioning that the "flop" sold many millions of records, just not on the same scale as previous, and I don't believe that "Elephant" (latest White Stripes) has cracked 1 million sold anywhere yet...
Taco Bell dog: Oh great... a talking Gecko...
I look at this as nothing more than a bill with good intentions and very little teeth. If one country is not able to force its laws over the internet (ex. DMCA sure doesn't stop illegal copies of everything to sit on servers in China), then one law saying no to spammers will basically have the same effect. You need some sort of internet standard or governing body, something that could be better equipped to handle and enforce these laws, but a central organization structure goes against the idea of the internet in the first place. You're left with the good, with some bad that will be extremely hard to get rid of, if possible at all.
When I think of real bugs in computers... I'm drawn to the ants that were nesting in the computer in the movie Pi.
So where's the caucus to keep these "watchdogs" from over-abusing their powers, jailing kids who accidentally mention the words "Harry Potter" somewhere online, or threaten to shut down universities' internet connections during finals because one of the professors may have a file that might be illgal according to some law.
You know, protection from overbearing abuse, the rules that this country is based on... where's the caucus to protect people and their rights?
Since when did people only apply to people who were located in large office towers and made millions a year, scamming average people for all they are worth.
Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor...
No matter how good you made the card, assuming it would be a dual video card/processor, you would be stuck in a situation like if you were to buy a motherboard with tons of onboard stuff on it, like a video card, for example. No matter how much ram you put in it, the video card's power will never be quite as good as if you were to buy a separate video card of comparable power and plug it into the motherboard. The same would probably be true for a video card/processor combo.
and well, I'm sure a chunk of my adult life will be broken by it as well... but it was all by two simple words:
College Tuition
The collective P2P community is letting out a silent, but very noticable "neer, neer!" to the RIAA.
If I lived somewhere where it cost 20,000 to mail me, I don't think any advertiser would bug me again... ever.
...those usually are void once the company goes under. You basically have a lifetime guarentee as long as the company is around, which is why it only really means something when the company has been around a long time, like Sears for example.
If the agreement is anything like that, the buyers of the assets can in theory say that since the original company is gone, they don't have to continue the service but they can offer them a new service, just like the old one, at a higher price.
You haven't picked up your copy of the 9th edition of Newspeak, have you?