I wasn't debating copyright infringement, just that fact that the new internet2 was supposed to be for educational and research purposes. But now that you mention it, in the articles the RIAA weren't disputing legal transferring of files between educational organizations, but the rampant copyright infringement of RIAA produced material by students using the i2hub service.
I2 is *only* for educational and experimental use - it should be a place where people at universities can access a site and get a fairly accurate opinion, not "my mama told me that nukular power is bad" and such crap. More importantly, it should not have SPAM, viruses, spyware, and other malware on it at all.
Educational and experimental use only huh? Then it should have no P2P music sharing apps currently on it, right?
Not so. Making a few additions to an already great system is not surpassing its master. The reason Debian is as good as it is, is because of its strict policies. If Debian closed its doors for good, Ubunto would indeed be screwed.
1)MS files and programs are being reverse engineered to provide for interoperability.
Not true. OO.org is proclaimed as being an free MS Office alternative (i.e. replacement). The replacement of MS Office with a free alternative is the intent, not simply the interoperability between the two suites. It even clones the interface for goodness sake.
But how often do you see it portraied that Maxwell's Euqations, the Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom, The Standard Model, and Gravitation as best models we currently have to fit our observations?
I see your point. However, with gravity you don't need faith to observe its effect. The origin of life as explained by evolutionary models does.
As an aside, I work in a dept at a university that does extensive research in phylogenetics, bioinformatics, evolution, origin of life models, etc. My professor, an evolutionist, admits that the current "origin of life" evolution models require great "faith" to believe, and that he has collegues in the field who he recognizes as being ardently religious followers of evolution as a belief system, to the the extent where even in the face of published and verified imperical evidence to the contrary they would still scream "heresy". What he describes sounds like fundamentalism to me.
Science is not saying that evolution is right. It is saying that evolution is the theory that most accurately represents what we are currently observing.
From an end-user's point-of-view i.e. Joe Sixpack, I've seen too many documentaries that portray evolution is being the final matter-of-fact proven answer. I have no heard mention of the idea that they believe that evolution simply "most accurately represents what we are currently observing". It's always touted is fact.
Would they sell two tiers of chips, those for developers, and those for consumers?
I should hope not. Imagine trying to replicate and and solve a bug that a customer has under that scenario. Better still, wait until all the dud chips get re-badged and sold as good ones (from certain countries that will remain nameless). Mmmm.... excellent!
I saw a documentary recently about how they inserted electrode-like things in a persons head and hooked up to a camera and the person who was completely blind could make out a little movement and shape. Give this technology a few decades and we probably won't need eyes, just a hat with cameras mounted all over it. I jest, but it was very interesting technology.
From the Zdnet article: Microsoft has been found guilty by the highest authorities in Europe -- as in the US -- of abusing its monopoly position. As a result, the company is required to stop that abuse. In this case, it has been told it must make server protocols available: by withholding that information, it has prevented companies from writing competitive software
Isn't that what the EU and US software patent laws are intended for?
Well, first of all, I'd call Windows XP SP2 their latest release.
Well then, if you are going to count minor versions of the same release, then the latest update to Debian 3.0 was released on January 1st, 2005! Call it "Service Pack 4" if you like, we call it Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r4.
Running a 2002 release of Windows XP doesn't prevent you from installing the lastest version of Mozilla, Firefox or . The version of Mozilla in Debian stable is currently 1.0.0, and Firefox isn't even there!
Get real! Do you install Mozilla, Firefox, etc from WindowsUpdate.com? I think not! Nothing stops you installing the above mentioned software on either Debian "stable" or Windows XP. As with Windows, Debian "stable" users can download it from mozilla.org or other 3rd party sites.
I hope she and others keep testing it, since this is the first time I've ever heard of homeopathy even being remotely true. I won't hold my breath though.
Maybe it's the alcohol in the homeopathic remedies that produces the effect?;-)
Yup, they should make a law that forces ISPs to simply pull the plug on the users broadband connection when a zombied pc is conclusively detected. Until that user can show that they are a responsible pc owner and netizen, it's back to playing Solitaire or Minesweeper.
There is a form on the front page of cruise.com that says "Enter your email for weekly edeals". Couldn't some miscreant have entered this guys email address every other day as a prank or act of revenge of sorts? I know that a common revenge technique these days is to sign someone up for as much junkmail as you can (although nothing is quite as effective as posting the email address on usenet). If so, their removal of his email address would by futile, as it would be kept being re-added the next day or so.
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I wasn't debating copyright infringement, just that fact that the new internet2 was supposed to be for educational and research purposes. But now that you mention it, in the articles the RIAA weren't disputing legal transferring of files between educational organizations, but the rampant copyright infringement of RIAA produced material by students using the i2hub service.
I2 is *only* for educational and experimental use - it should be a place where people at universities can access a site and get a fairly accurate opinion, not "my mama told me that nukular power is bad" and such crap. More importantly, it should not have SPAM, viruses, spyware, and other malware on it at all.
Educational and experimental use only huh? Then it should have no P2P music sharing apps currently on it, right?
Debian is where it is today because of strict quality control procedures and standards. This is something that Ubunto does not have.
This guy must be on crack. Debian is still the dist of choice for servers by a long shot.
The student has surpassed the master!
Not so. Making a few additions to an already great system is not surpassing its master. The reason Debian is as good as it is, is because of its strict policies. If Debian closed its doors for good, Ubunto would indeed be screwed.
1)MS files and programs are being reverse engineered to provide for interoperability.
Not true. OO.org is proclaimed as being an free MS Office alternative (i.e. replacement). The replacement of MS Office with a free alternative is the intent, not simply the interoperability between the two suites. It even clones the interface for goodness sake.
The patent system is really, really, screwed!
"Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator."
Ok, I call BS. Where does this "bad luck" come from, and who/what person/force/deity causes it to come to pass?
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Good question. GTK is pretty ugly.
Love the sig, but shouldn't that be "I wash mah-self with a rag on a stee-ick"?
Modded Funny? uhh... I was actually being serious. What could be better than a clean conscience?
Let's be honest here. Your own private permanent porn collection. What could be better?
A clean conscience perhaps?
Evolution IS a fact - life evolves. Period
I wasn't disputing that. However, evolution as an "origin of life" model is not proven fact.
But how often do you see it portraied that Maxwell's Euqations, the Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom, The Standard Model, and Gravitation as best models we currently have to fit our observations?
I see your point. However, with gravity you don't need faith to observe its effect. The origin of life as explained by evolutionary models does.
As an aside, I work in a dept at a university that does extensive research in phylogenetics, bioinformatics, evolution, origin of life models, etc. My professor, an evolutionist, admits that the current "origin of life" evolution models require great "faith" to believe, and that he has collegues in the field who he recognizes as being ardently religious followers of evolution as a belief system, to the the extent where even in the face of published and verified imperical evidence to the contrary they would still scream "heresy". What he describes sounds like fundamentalism to me.
Science is not saying that evolution is right. It is saying that evolution is the theory that most accurately represents what we are currently observing.
From an end-user's point-of-view i.e. Joe Sixpack, I've seen too many documentaries that portray evolution is being the final matter-of-fact proven answer. I have no heard mention of the idea that they believe that evolution simply "most accurately represents what we are currently observing". It's always touted is fact.
Would they sell two tiers of chips, those for developers, and those for consumers?
I should hope not. Imagine trying to replicate and and solve a bug that a customer has under that scenario. Better still, wait until all the dud chips get re-badged and sold as good ones (from certain countries that will remain nameless). Mmmm.... excellent!
I saw a documentary recently about how they inserted electrode-like things in a persons head and hooked up to a camera and the person who was completely blind could make out a little movement and shape. Give this technology a few decades and we probably won't need eyes, just a hat with cameras mounted all over it. I jest, but it was very interesting technology.
From the Zdnet article:
Microsoft has been found guilty by the highest authorities in Europe -- as in the US -- of abusing its monopoly position. As a result, the company is required to stop that abuse. In this case, it has been told it must make server protocols available: by withholding that information, it has prevented companies from writing competitive software
Isn't that what the EU and US software patent laws are intended for?
Maybe I'm out of touch, but doesn't the ye old classic recursive malloc() C program slow most any machine to a crawl by eating its RAM?
Well, first of all, I'd call Windows XP SP2 their latest release.
Well then, if you are going to count minor versions of the same release, then the latest update to Debian 3.0 was released on January 1st, 2005! Call it "Service Pack 4" if you like, we call it Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r4.
Running a 2002 release of Windows XP doesn't prevent you from installing the lastest version of Mozilla, Firefox or . The version of Mozilla in Debian stable is currently 1.0.0, and Firefox isn't even there!
Get real! Do you install Mozilla, Firefox, etc from WindowsUpdate.com? I think not! Nothing stops you installing the above mentioned software on either Debian "stable" or Windows XP. As with Windows, Debian "stable" users can download it from mozilla.org or other 3rd party sites.
surey they could just sell that for $5 as is on a cheap cd, no box.
You mean just like how they sell XP "as is" with no warranty of any kind implied?
I hope she and others keep testing it, since this is the first time I've ever heard of homeopathy even being remotely true. I won't hold my breath though.
;-)
Maybe it's the alcohol in the homeopathic remedies that produces the effect?
Yup, they should make a law that forces ISPs to simply pull the plug on the users broadband connection when a zombied pc is conclusively detected. Until that user can show that they are a responsible pc owner and netizen, it's back to playing Solitaire or Minesweeper.
There is a form on the front page of cruise.com that says "Enter your email for weekly edeals". Couldn't some miscreant have entered this guys email address every other day as a prank or act of revenge of sorts? I know that a common revenge technique these days is to sign someone up for as much junkmail as you can (although nothing is quite as effective as posting the email address on usenet). If so, their removal of his email address would by futile, as it would be kept being re-added the next day or so.