What company do you work for? I gotta make sure I sell any stock in that one.
FROM THE FRONT PAGE:
--snip--
Installation
With Asterisk@Home, you simply need to download the disk image, burn it to a CD, and boot off of it.
* Burn Asterisk@Home iso to a blank CD
* Boot your Asterisk PC with the CD and press enter NOTE: This will erase all data on the hard drive of the PC!!!
* After the Linux is loaded the CD will eject. Take out the CD and wait for the system to reboot
* During the reboot Asterisk will be built from source for your hardware. This will take some time. Do not cancel the boot!
* Log in to your new Asterisk box (user:root, password:password)
--snip--
WOW was that ever hard to Read (bold emphasis mine of course)
This is NOT meant to be an intuitive GUI install.. I hope to god you're not a sysadmin or something of the likes. It didn't even take Reading "Full Documentation", just opening you're fucking eyes and putting good old fasion literacy to work.
I really hope this was originally meant to be funny.
How this EVER got modded to be 5 Informative is beyond me.. (oh yeah, it's slashdot).
I'm not sure how patents in Europe work, but in the US, a patent can easily be contested. Prior art and obviousness can rule out a lot of these "patent infringements" in linux.
So lets do it! Bring it to light and put on the table what linux may be infringing on if you know of any and lets research it =]
Considering these ads have only been on slashdot all day long..
I love how a good deal of the slashdot community are supporters of open software and standards.. and yet every day that I read a story on slashdot, about how so and so country / state / organization is implementing foss, right SMACK in the middle of the page is an add from MS on the "Facts" about TCO for Windows vs Linux.. or "Facts" about Performance..
I'm not suprised at all that the Desktop search needs Internet Exploder 5.x + or Windows 2000 / XP. Although imho, this is what hurts MS a lot. Trying to tie down a service to your OS when there are viable alternatives out there that are possibly better and more secure, ends up making you look like an idiot.
If it will be nearly as successful as the re-release of Aladdin! or.. Beauty and the Beast!! or.. Little Mermaid!!
Disney is such a crap company.. 90% of their movies are screen-write of a well known fairy-tale, and the others that aren't were done with and mostly by Pixar..
The day Disney consitantly shows creativity and innovation is the day I'll pay attention to them..
I think the bush administration is well aware of what effect this will have on aviation and such said devices.. My question is, is this technology already in place? If so, the Bush administration has a lot to explain.
Terrorist hijacks a plane.. and the US shuts off GPS. Now the chances of that terrrorist ( who was trained to use the automated equipment) finding his initial target is pretty slim.
The consequences for everyone else? Navigate like a true pilot to your destination (if there is a way) or just fly in circles.
This is my best uneducated opinion / guess on this so please be kind.
Macromedia, you proprietary whore. I hope an opensource alternative overtakes the market and burry's you deep. You've got a petition that has brought to your attention numerous times requesting flash on ppc and probably numerous other architectures..
not linux, when 90% of the desktop market is windows and your soundcard hardware vendor only writes drivers for that os and doesnt publish open specs. This is hardly a limitation of linux.
as always, pull your head out of your ass and wake up.
Just think of how much embarrasment and shame you could save.. lost in the city, can't find which building you're supposed to bomb.. alas, there's a service that'll guide you to your target!
Apparently the "Choose your own Adventure" series of books will also be implementing a form of DRM in their E-book series so that readers cannot just read all the way through. They will be forced to go to page 118 if they want to fight the DMCA in court or flip to page 62 if they want to download PlayFair. This, the authors say, was the "intended" use of the works and not to just be carelessly reading in a way that would violate the authors "rights"..
anyone who's stupid enough to claim their privacy is being invaded and this is unconstitutional blah blah blah is an utter moron.
99% of the time you are driving on PUBLIC property out in plain view of anyone.. How is a chip in your car or license plate checking for safe speeds or conditions an invasion of that? EVERYONE thinks the rules don't apply to them and this privacy bullshit is just a facade
If these things ever were to check for violations of speed or erratic driving and you believe the speed limit is unreasonable, the problem is not with the tracking system. If you're breaking the law.. its breaking the law.. period.. go through the proper channels of trying to get a limit changed.. don't bitch about "privacy"
Everyone who's crying "unconstitutional" are the same people who are breaking the law and would be the least to benefit as the benefits greatly outweigh the disadvantages. Driving is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT.
Hopefully once this process gets cheaper and more refined, we'll have optical processors and buses.
A snip from the article:
But the greatest potential for CVD diamond lies in computing. If diamond is ever to be a practical material for semiconducting, it will need to be affordably grown in large wafers. (The silicon wafers Intel uses, for example, are 1 foot in diameter.) CVD growth is limited only by the size of the seed placed in the Apollo machine. Starting with a square, waferlike fragment, the Linares process will grow the diamond into a prismatic shape, with the top slightly wider than the base. For the past seven years - since Robert Linares first discovered the sweet spot - Apollo has been growing increasingly larger seeds by chopping off the top layer of growth and using that as the starting point for the next batch. At the moment, the company is producing 10-millimeter wafers but predicts it will reach an inch square by year's end and 4 inches in five years. The price per carat: about $5
I don't know what we can look forward to after that =P
Slashdot Mirror
What company do you work for? I gotta make sure I sell any stock in that one.
FROM THE FRONT PAGE:
--snip--
Installation
With Asterisk@Home, you simply need to download the disk image, burn it to a CD, and boot off of it.
* Burn Asterisk@Home iso to a blank CD
* Boot your Asterisk PC with the CD and press enter
NOTE: This will erase all data on the hard drive of the PC!!!
* After the Linux is loaded the CD will eject. Take out the CD and wait for the system to reboot
* During the reboot Asterisk will be built from source for your hardware. This will take some time. Do not cancel the boot!
* Log in to your new Asterisk box (user:root, password:password)
--snip--
WOW was that ever hard to Read (bold emphasis mine of course)
This is NOT meant to be an intuitive GUI install..
I hope to god you're not a sysadmin or something of the likes.
It didn't even take Reading "Full Documentation", just opening you're fucking eyes and putting good old fasion literacy to work.
I really hope this was originally meant to be funny.
How this EVER got modded to be 5 Informative is beyond me.. (oh yeah, it's slashdot).
Prior Art.
I'm not sure how patents in Europe work, but in the US, a patent can easily be contested. Prior art and obviousness can rule out a lot of these "patent infringements" in linux.
So lets do it! Bring it to light and put on the table what linux may be infringing on if you know of any and lets research it =]
Those dog collars and electric barriers?
I for one would really like to see pics of that commet hitting earth in 2034.
Considering these ads have only been on slashdot all day long..
I love how a good deal of the slashdot community are supporters of open software and standards.. and yet every day that I read a story on slashdot, about how so and so country / state / organization is implementing foss, right SMACK in the middle of the page is an add from MS on the "Facts" about TCO for Windows vs Linux.. or "Facts" about Performance..
Should be "News for Nerds, Irony that matters.."
I'm not suprised at all that the Desktop search needs Internet Exploder 5.x + or Windows 2000 / XP. Although imho, this is what hurts MS a lot. Trying to tie down a service to your OS when there are viable alternatives out there that are possibly better and more secure, ends up making you look like an idiot.
Amen Brother
When do we take *in god we trust* off the dollar bill. Isn't that govt sponsored?
What about "One nation under god" in the Pledge?
What do people swear in on when going under "oath" in the court room again?
And you're telling me a sticker that states a FACT is unconstitutional.. heh..
USA, land of the greedy and oblivious.
If it will be nearly as successful as the re-release of Aladdin! or.. Beauty and the Beast!! or.. Little Mermaid!!
Disney is such a crap company.. 90% of their movies are screen-write of a well known fairy-tale, and the others that aren't were done with and mostly by Pixar..
The day Disney consitantly shows creativity and innovation is the day I'll pay attention to them..
I've been bugging google about gpg support built into gmail. Never get any response though.
Survivor in Space!!
The team that fixes Hubble first wins the food!!
so yeah, if I were a terrorist.. I'd just start meeting my counter-parts at some dumpy bar.
I'd like to see you log a conversation of two drunk Iraqi nationalists IRL. good luck..
I think the bush administration is well aware of what effect this will have on aviation and such said devices.. My question is, is this technology already in place? If so, the Bush administration has a lot to explain.
Terrorist hijacks a plane.. and the US shuts off GPS. Now the chances of that terrrorist ( who was trained to use the automated equipment) finding his initial target is pretty slim.
The consequences for everyone else? Navigate like a true pilot to your destination (if there is a way) or just fly in circles.
This is my best uneducated opinion / guess on this so please be kind.
Demand for compases and maps have gone up 80%.
I say we all contact SoundForge and reference M$'s latest PR release about indemnification.
Use their FUD against them =D
What about PlaneShift?
Macromedia, you proprietary whore. I hope an opensource alternative overtakes the market and burry's you deep. You've got a petition that has brought to your attention numerous times requesting flash on ppc and probably numerous other architectures..
952 signatures isn't enough.. ? go to hell..
not linux, when 90% of the desktop market is windows and your soundcard hardware vendor only writes drivers for that os and doesnt publish open specs. This is hardly a limitation of linux.
as always, pull your head out of your ass and wake up.
Couldn't agree more. I hate these damn "privacy" advocates.
Typically it seems that "privacy advocate " is synonymous with "closet criminal".
Just think of how much embarrasment and shame you could save.. lost in the city, can't find which building you're supposed to bomb.. alas, there's a service that'll guide you to your target!
Apparently the "Choose your own Adventure" series of books will also be implementing a form of DRM in their E-book series so that readers cannot just read all the way through. They will be forced to go to page 118 if they want to fight the DMCA in court or flip to page 62 if they want to download PlayFair. This, the authors say, was the "intended" use of the works and not to just be carelessly reading in a way that would violate the authors "rights" ..
anyone who's stupid enough to claim their privacy is being invaded and this is unconstitutional blah blah blah is an utter moron.
99% of the time you are driving on PUBLIC property out in plain view of anyone.. How is a chip in your car or license plate checking for safe speeds or conditions an invasion of that? EVERYONE thinks the rules don't apply to them and this privacy bullshit is just a facade
If these things ever were to check for violations of speed or erratic driving and you believe the speed limit is unreasonable, the problem is not with the tracking system. If you're breaking the law.. its breaking the law.. period.. go through the proper channels of trying to get a limit changed.. don't bitch about "privacy"
Everyone who's crying "unconstitutional" are the same people who are breaking the law and would be the least to benefit as the benefits greatly outweigh the disadvantages. Driving is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT.
you still have the potential of something like this happening..
no one from the slashdot crew is even interesting enough to "spy" on..
I think these guys have watched Enemy of the State / Anti-Trust too many times.
Hopefully once this process gets cheaper and more refined, we'll have optical processors and buses.
A snip from the article:
But the greatest potential for CVD diamond lies in computing. If diamond is ever to be a practical material for semiconducting, it will need to be affordably grown in large wafers. (The silicon wafers Intel uses, for example, are 1 foot in diameter.) CVD growth is limited only by the size of the seed placed in the Apollo machine. Starting with a square, waferlike fragment, the Linares process will grow the diamond into a prismatic shape, with the top slightly wider than the base. For the past seven years - since Robert Linares first discovered the sweet spot - Apollo has been growing increasingly larger seeds by chopping off the top layer of growth and using that as the starting point for the next batch. At the moment, the company is producing 10-millimeter wafers but predicts it will reach an inch square by year's end and 4 inches in five years. The price per carat: about $5
I don't know what we can look forward to after that =P