IANAL... but since corporations have been ruled to be individuals in some sense, wouldn't the Fifth Amendment come into play here? I.e., at your murder trial, the prosecution cannot force you to take the stand and testify against yourself. Similarly, I don't see how SCO can force IBM to make a case against themselves.
Personally, I believe getting off this Earth is the single most important thing to us as a species. Currently, we have all of our "eggs" in one basket, and one single thing can take us all out - a bad asteroid, a nuclear war, etc. I really hate Bush in all other aspects, but if he has a vision for getting off this planet and none of the Democratic candidates do... I will grudgingly vote for him.
Yes, they are possible. Look at what living cells already do... every single one of them. They convert raw materials into cell structures. We already know it's possible; we just need to figure it out how to do it our way, or copy the way the cells do it.
GPS/Galileo is a very powerful thing. It's not just useful in consumer electronic toys, but in real warfare situations. As it is now GPS is run by the U.S. military, so if someone tries to use it against us to guide their bombs we can easily screw over their guidance systems. Galileo, without these kinds of provisions, would've allowed the terrorists an alternative guidance method not easily jammable by us. These provisions are in the best interests of the U.S. - and also Europe, as they are our ally, and would also be susceptible to un-jammable Galileo-guided smart weapons. This is not a matter of free speech or freedom - this is about national defense, and the more control we have in matters of national defense, the better.
Here I am, an Ignorant Aardvark, and all I do is post to Slashdot. Meanwhile, a Drunken Aardvark still manages to write a new piece of software. Hmmm, maybe I should drink more...
Doesn't that seem... I dunno, a low? Granted, I have hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive storage filled, but I didn't create any of it... the movie studios, TV studios, and game studios did.
However, the stuff I do create are digital pictures. Lots of them. I take everything in 1600x1200 resolution, so each image is about 800KB, and my camera has a 128MB flash card. I fill it up quite often. I'd say I take on average 20 pics a day (which averages out to around 6 GB per year), and that's just in pictures!
What about save game files - do those count? And I also create text files, but those probably don't total over a few megabytes per year.
I don't shoot videos or record songs or anything - but yet I do enough data creation for 10 other people. I shudder to think how much information people who shoot digital videos are creating.
Everyone suffers many YASD's. This is NetHack after all, not a cake walk. And all players, "registered" or otherwise, always have to login using the name "yasd"... after that point I have my Perl script set up to handle logins.
Umm, "yasd" is a dummy password. I've erased passwords on the yasd account... so any password should work. If you're still having problems, try logging in using Telnet. It won't even prompt for a password.
In case you haven't noticed my sig, I have a public Nethack server as well. If you want to try out Nethack but don't want to go through the hassle of installing it (it's not much of a hassle if you install binaries, but unless you've installed it from source before, it's not that easy), then try using my server. Simply login to (SSH or telnet) fyre.sytes.net with username "yasd" and password "yasd". Create a name (basically an account), and start playing! If you need help with Nethack, check out the Nethack webpage
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, recently spoke at my school (University of Maryland; he got his CS degree here). In no uncertain words he said how much he hated Microsoft - he is on our side every step of the way - against monopolies, against DRM, against the DMCA (which forced Google to censor certain webpages), etc. The only way this merger will ever happen is over Sergey Brin's cold, dead body.
Use the same type of human verification system that Yahoo uses when signing up for an e-mail account. If you can't type in the mangled letters in the image, then your post to the weblog is ignored. This would only be required for anonymous postings - if you're logged in, presumably you've already passed the human verification test upon account creation, so you don't have to go through the hassle each time you want to post.
The Sci-Fi Channel has disappointed me so much to the point that I've stopped watching it, on principle. They've canceled good sci-fi shows like Babylon 5 and Farscape, only to replace them with pseudoscientific crap that costs pennies to make: Sightings, Jon Edwards, UFO "documentaries", and crop circle "documentaries", amongst others. They've even declared their intention to stop producing science fiction shows and focus more on fantasy shows. WTF?! This is the Sci-Fi Channel!
I'm hoping for a good science fiction channel that won't give in to spreading pseudoscientific bullcrap just because it might get them better ratings. I'm looking for a station with integrity to throw my support behind, and the Sci-Fi Channel is not that station.
Spammers' links generally contain lots of advertising. If our spam filters now automatically visit all webpages pointed to in spam mails, couldn't that in itself become a source of revenue? Just spam with as many URLs loaded up with as many pay-per-impression ads you can think of... would this really help?
a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through
A, the deadly combination of 10 hours of sitting plus the 400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd... has been known to reduce the natural life of cushions by 95%.
In Soviet Russia, Ogg/MP3 Player Announces iRiver!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Ogg/MP3 players...
iRiver to Apple: "All your iPods are belong to us."
1. Release Ogg/MP3 Player
2. Make it only compatible with Windows
3. ?!?!
4. Profit from the people who use Ogg (who are the same people who use Linux).
I, for one, welcome our new Ogg/MP3 overlords!
Something about hot grits and Natalie Portman, I forget how that one goes
And here's a haiku of my own devising:
Storing fifty songs
On my iRiver player
And fifty pornos
what the f&*^#$ is ogg? Some stupid linux invention?
From their site: "Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." In other words, it has better compression than mp3, and since it's open source, you don't have to pay licensing fees on players that decode Ogg like you would with mp3.
The awesome thing about the iPod is that is a huge chunk of mobile storage that happens to have a nice LCD navigation screen and the capability to play mp3s. If this new Ogg/Mp3 Player is castrated by the industry, i.e. you can only store and delete, not download from it, then it won't stand a chance at replacing the iPod. I hate when dumb copyright-protection schemes get in the way of a good product, but it's happened before, and I'm afraid to say, it will likely happen again.
I can boot up DR-DOS in an emulator in a few milliseconds, not 200 of 'em! And keep in mind, the emulator just adds overhead. If I somehow managed to install DR-DOS on my tripped-out Athlon XP 3000+ system, it'd boot in even LESS time!
You can't overtake Google at this point. It's too late. Google has been the undisputed king of search for over two years now, and it's simply too "big" to be overtaken by Microsoft's or Amazon's attempts. The only thing that Google could possibly do to screw up their huge lead in marketshare is to do something incredibly stupid - much like what we need Microsoft to do before it loses the majority of the market (and, let's face it, DRM for Microsoft just might be the thing that kills it).
What a waste of money. Laptops aren't the answer to better student performance, as anyone who's been through college recently can attest. Laptops simply add more distractions - games, instant messager, PORN... and aren't really more efficient than old fashioned pen and paper.
That $1.2 million should be spent on something that really matters... like new textbooks?
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Don't underestimate Java. People are starting to use it as a serious programming language - not just for web work (either client or server side). The AP exams have switched their computer science exams to Java from C++, and most universities are making the same kinds of adjustments in their computer science departments. In ten years most of the young people in the workforce will be coding in Java, rather than the C++ or C that is currently the programming workhorse. Java may have failed on the web, but it's just coming online in the mainstream programming.
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IANAL ... but since corporations have been ruled to be individuals in some sense, wouldn't the Fifth Amendment come into play here? I.e., at your murder trial, the prosecution cannot force you to take the stand and testify against yourself. Similarly, I don't see how SCO can force IBM to make a case against themselves.
Personally, I believe getting off this Earth is the single most important thing to us as a species. Currently, we have all of our "eggs" in one basket, and one single thing can take us all out - a bad asteroid, a nuclear war, etc. I really hate Bush in all other aspects, but if he has a vision for getting off this planet and none of the Democratic candidates do ... I will grudgingly vote for him.
Yes, they are possible. Look at what living cells already do ... every single one of them. They convert raw materials into cell structures. We already know it's possible; we just need to figure it out how to do it our way, or copy the way the cells do it.
GPS/Galileo is a very powerful thing. It's not just useful in consumer electronic toys, but in real warfare situations. As it is now GPS is run by the U.S. military, so if someone tries to use it against us to guide their bombs we can easily screw over their guidance systems. Galileo, without these kinds of provisions, would've allowed the terrorists an alternative guidance method not easily jammable by us. These provisions are in the best interests of the U.S. - and also Europe, as they are our ally, and would also be susceptible to un-jammable Galileo-guided smart weapons. This is not a matter of free speech or freedom - this is about national defense, and the more control we have in matters of national defense, the better.
The Segway does NOT top out at 6 mph. That's just plain wrong, and I would've thought someone would've picked that up before it made the main page.
Here I am, an Ignorant Aardvark, and all I do is post to Slashdot. Meanwhile, a Drunken Aardvark still manages to write a new piece of software. Hmmm, maybe I should drink more ...
I, for one, ...
Will never buy anything from Belkin again.
I sent a letter to howard@princeton.edu expressing my thoughts. I suggest all of you do the same. Here's the contents of my letter:
Dear Howard,
I think I speak for all the hard-working members of the open-source community when I say,
"Fuck you."
Sincerely,
Ignorant Aardvark
Doesn't that seem ... I dunno, a low? Granted, I have hundreds of gigabytes of hard drive storage filled, but I didn't create any of it ... the movie studios, TV studios, and game studios did.
However, the stuff I do create are digital pictures. Lots of them. I take everything in 1600x1200 resolution, so each image is about 800KB, and my camera has a 128MB flash card. I fill it up quite often. I'd say I take on average 20 pics a day (which averages out to around 6 GB per year), and that's just in pictures!
What about save game files - do those count? And I also create text files, but those probably don't total over a few megabytes per year.
I don't shoot videos or record songs or anything - but yet I do enough data creation for 10 other people. I shudder to think how much information people who shoot digital videos are creating.
Everyone suffers many YASD's. This is NetHack after all, not a cake walk. And all players, "registered" or otherwise, always have to login using the name "yasd" ... after that point I have my Perl script set up to handle logins.
Umm, "yasd" is a dummy password. I've erased passwords on the yasd account ... so any password should work. If you're still having problems, try logging in using Telnet. It won't even prompt for a password.
In case you haven't noticed my sig, I have a public Nethack server as well. If you want to try out Nethack but don't want to go through the hassle of installing it (it's not much of a hassle if you install binaries, but unless you've installed it from source before, it's not that easy), then try using my server. Simply login to (SSH or telnet) fyre.sytes.net with username "yasd" and password "yasd". Create a name (basically an account), and start playing! If you need help with Nethack, check out the Nethack webpage
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, recently spoke at my school (University of Maryland; he got his CS degree here). In no uncertain words he said how much he hated Microsoft - he is on our side every step of the way - against monopolies, against DRM, against the DMCA (which forced Google to censor certain webpages), etc. The only way this merger will ever happen is over Sergey Brin's cold, dead body.
Use the same type of human verification system that Yahoo uses when signing up for an e-mail account. If you can't type in the mangled letters in the image, then your post to the weblog is ignored. This would only be required for anonymous postings - if you're logged in, presumably you've already passed the human verification test upon account creation, so you don't have to go through the hassle each time you want to post.
The Sci-Fi Channel has disappointed me so much to the point that I've stopped watching it, on principle. They've canceled good sci-fi shows like Babylon 5 and Farscape, only to replace them with pseudoscientific crap that costs pennies to make: Sightings, Jon Edwards, UFO "documentaries", and crop circle "documentaries", amongst others. They've even declared their intention to stop producing science fiction shows and focus more on fantasy shows. WTF?! This is the Sci-Fi Channel!
I'm hoping for a good science fiction channel that won't give in to spreading pseudoscientific bullcrap just because it might get them better ratings. I'm looking for a station with integrity to throw my support behind, and the Sci-Fi Channel is not that station.
Videogames may help cure acrophobia, but it'll just instill new fears in you, mainly kakorrhaphiophobia and thanatophobia (Phobias)
Spammers' links generally contain lots of advertising. If our spam filters now automatically visit all webpages pointed to in spam mails, couldn't that in itself become a source of revenue? Just spam with as many URLs loaded up with as many pay-per-impression ads you can think of ... would this really help?
a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through
... has been known to reduce the natural life of cushions by 95%.
A, the deadly combination of 10 hours of sitting plus the 400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd
- In Soviet Russia, Ogg/MP3 Player Announces iRiver!
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Ogg/MP3 players...
- iRiver to Apple: "All your iPods are belong to us."
- 1. Release Ogg/MP3 Player
- I, for one, welcome our new Ogg/MP3 overlords!
- Something about hot grits and Natalie Portman, I forget how that one goes
And here's a haiku of my own devising:2. Make it only compatible with Windows
3. ?!?!
4. Profit from the people who use Ogg (who are the same people who use Linux).
Storing fifty songs
On my iRiver player
And fifty pornos
Did I miss any joke variations?
what the f&*^#$ is ogg? Some stupid linux invention?
From their site: "Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." In other words, it has better compression than mp3, and since it's open source, you don't have to pay licensing fees on players that decode Ogg like you would with mp3.
The awesome thing about the iPod is that is a huge chunk of mobile storage that happens to have a nice LCD navigation screen and the capability to play mp3s. If this new Ogg/Mp3 Player is castrated by the industry, i.e. you can only store and delete, not download from it, then it won't stand a chance at replacing the iPod. I hate when dumb copyright-protection schemes get in the way of a good product, but it's happened before, and I'm afraid to say, it will likely happen again.
I can boot up DR-DOS in an emulator in a few milliseconds, not 200 of 'em! And keep in mind, the emulator just adds overhead. If I somehow managed to install DR-DOS on my tripped-out Athlon XP 3000+ system, it'd boot in even LESS time!
You can't overtake Google at this point. It's too late. Google has been the undisputed king of search for over two years now, and it's simply too "big" to be overtaken by Microsoft's or Amazon's attempts. The only thing that Google could possibly do to screw up their huge lead in marketshare is to do something incredibly stupid - much like what we need Microsoft to do before it loses the majority of the market (and, let's face it, DRM for Microsoft just might be the thing that kills it).
What a waste of money. Laptops aren't the answer to better student performance, as anyone who's been through college recently can attest. Laptops simply add more distractions - games, instant messager, PORN ... and aren't really more efficient than old fashioned pen and paper.
That $1.2 million should be spent on something that really matters ... like new textbooks?
Don't underestimate Java. People are starting to use it as a serious programming language - not just for web work (either client or server side). The AP exams have switched their computer science exams to Java from C++, and most universities are making the same kinds of adjustments in their computer science departments. In ten years most of the young people in the workforce will be coding in Java, rather than the C++ or C that is currently the programming workhorse. Java may have failed on the web, but it's just coming online in the mainstream programming.