I remember in the days when Sudden Acceleration was the big thing that one of the car manufacturers -- may have been Volvo -- finally put a demo on television about it. At the time, everyone who had just driven through the back of their garage in into their kitchen swore on a stack of holy books that they were holding down the brake as hard as they could press it.
In the demo, the accelerator was floored while the brake was held down as hard as possible. Want to guess what happened?
I'll tell you...
The car stayed in place, spewing smoke from its rear tires in the process.
I thought that had put the nail in the coffin of Sudden Acceleration years ago.
they redesigned the primary infantry weapon to have a less powerful cartridge that had full-auto capability to provide suppressive fire vs aimed fire. A smaller cartridge means that an infantryman can carry more rounds for the same weight. This gave us the M-14.
Sorry, Big Wrong here. The M14 fires the.308 (7.62 x 51mm) cartridge, which provides virtually identical ballistics to the.30-06 (7.62 x 61mm) round in the M-1. All the.308 proved was that you could put a.30-06 into a case about a half inch shorter.
It was from that mis-step that we went to the 5.56 (.223) cartridge in the M-16 that wasn't even initially intended for the U.S. Army. We were giving AR-15 (civilian model of the M16) to our more slightly statured (shorter & lighter) South Vietmese allies when some one realized that a heavy rifle with heavy ammunition that nobody could control on full-auto fire didn't make nearly as much sense in the jungle where visibility was often 15 yards or less, as did this toy rifle we were giving to everyone else.
As a result, the M16 and its derivations have now served for as long as any other service rifle in the U.S. Military.
And btw, it was the Germans back in 1941-1942 who realized that it didn't make sense for their soliders to carry 1000 metre rifles when most battles were fought at under 400 metres. A smaller, lighter, cheaper rifle with ammunition only effective out to 400 metres that allowed selective fire as well made the individual foot solider a much more effective fighter. Too bad that the USA had to learn that lesson TWICE!! (M14, before M16.)
How much energy is that in Burning Libraries of Congress?
I have no more concept of Burning Libraries of Congress than I do of Space Shuttle Fuel tanks (with or without out maneuvering engine fuel included). I've never used either of them.
However, I was once rear-ended while driving a 1971 Ford Pinto. So I'd like to know what it is equivalent to in Fully Fueled Pinto Bombs, thank you.
Or if you can convert it to furlongs per fortnight, I can take it from there.
1: How long before Microsoft, in a new operating system, or maybe just a "security update" for JPEG images, welds into the world's operating system the inability to store, view, print, manipulate, or transmit any image with this anti-counterfeit measure?
1a: And how long after that before it reports you to the feds when your try.
2: If you strip out those little circles that the system detects, or alter them enough to fail detection as currency, how many people you'd pass this bill to will notice the difference? Automatic bill changers maybe yes, but people???
Nor has it ever been demonstrated that one download equals one lost sale.
One way to test a thesis is to view the result if it were true.
The record industry wishes us to believe that every download is a lost sale. If true, what would their sales be if all downloads had never happened? Does this figure sound reasonable? Or does it exceed the total GNP of the G-7 nations, plus Nigeria?
I, for one, do not believe for a moment that Internet music sharing has kept the music industry from suddenly expanding several times in size. And since they can't tell the truth about this, I don't believe them about much else either. Do you?
Then again, I don't believe memos allegedly typed in 1971 clearly using Microsoft Word are authentic either. But if they are, then I'm using them as prior art to invalidate all patents relating to Microsoft Office!
Let's hope that the innovation of all these amateurs isn't smashed by the iron fist of patent portfolios of dubious legality, and well-funded lawyers who sometimes have more money than case law on their side.
We need better ways to protect the small innovators from the many tricks large corporations can use to threaten, intimidate, bankrupt, and harass them-- regardless of who is actually in the right.
What we need are actual prosecutions, and sentences with real teeth in them, for knowingly filing false cases, and barratry in all its forms. It's time for lawyers to go to jail when they knowingly misuse the law!
And we can start by making an example out of the RIAA!
When you control the means of communication -- to wit, the telecommunications companies -- you can shut down the ability of flash mobs in a moment.
And governments have this control. Both to enforce censorship (filtering) of messages, and to shut it down completely. And don't you dare believe otherwise! They call it National Security, and it's part of every country.
So they got a C&D letter. And probably from a real lawyer on actual letterhead. This is the lowest and cheapest form of legal intimidation. I've gotten one before, as have many other people. By itself it doesn't mean anything beyond a lawyer being paid to tell you Don't do that, or we'll be really pissed!
I'd say, get a lawyer in return. Get a cheap, or free lawyer. Get the ACLU (they like to defend free speech rights). Then send a letter in return.
As for myself, the very best nasty C&D letter and their outstanding response will show you that a lot of times, this really is just a cheap scare.
a fully legal operating system that was coded by the team from scratch..features a massive 1.35 million lines of code
Dubious, am I, of such an achievement. I speak from the experience of writing code myself for many years. That is just a whole lot of code simply for the purpose of selling a mod chip to a soon-to-be obsolete product. Any coding team this good could be making a lot of money working for any major software vendor.
I would accept that they modified a block of existing, open source code, and be impressed by that achievement alone. But that's not what the summary says.
As for what the article says, well, I'll have to read that directly after the/. tsunami passes.
access to aerial reconnaissance photographs and maps of Greenwich
The town is probably just doing a CYA in the event that there are nude sunbathers inadvertently photographed in the privacy of their own backyards. It's not like they'd want to reshoot the database if that happened.
It's the town's CYA because maybe some of the citizens didn't C-Their-A's.
launch of the dual-processor HP Workstation xw6200 and xw8200, offering customers standards-based 64-bit computing by using the new Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T).
Looks like all HP's done is trade an old dog for a new dog. Say what you like, but they're both still dogs.
is a steep price to pay to secure a browser that swept the market as a free, standalone product.
Be very scared. If this trial succeeds, you'll be forced into the Microsoft upgrade schedule for everything, instead of upgrading on your own schedule.
I don't upgrade operating systems because my old computer won't even run the modern OS well. WinXP would take nearly 2/3's of my maxed out 384MB just to load itself. I'm stuck with what my hardware can handle.
It is in the best interests of all of us that Microsoft does not succeed in this!
They added the revenue to a previous quarter if it came in within a few days of that quarter.
They got the revenue, even if it arrived in the next quarter.
Seems to me that this money did arrive, just a bit late. So they have one bad quarter where they only book revenue received minus revenue already booked, and continue forward from there.
They did get the money, didn't they? Even if it arrive a month later or so.
That would seem a small problem -- until they made it a big problem by lying about it (Hello Martha Stewart).
This is all a stupid game of Leapfrog, taking us all as suckers for a ride. To wit:
1: Increase copyright lengths in the USA.
2: Claim Europe is out of step "with the world" because their copyrights are only 50 years now, instead of life + 75.
3: Increase European copyrights to exceed the "world standard".
4: Claim the USA is now "out of step with the world" because their copyrights aren't as long as the Eurpoean standard.
5: Demand increasing USA copyright terms to exceed European copyrights.
6: PROFIT!!!
7: Goto #1.
I believe whatever copyright existed when a work was created and released to the public should remain in force for that work, and expire on schedule. Clearly that copyright was sufficient to insprie the creation of that work at the time, which is the stated purpose of all copyrights!
You know, the more things get unfair, the less I'm worried about "stealing" music over the Internet. I would not take physical product from a store, but that's a very different thing.
HOWEVER, the music industry has very little to worry about from me because frankly just about nothing today is worth listening to.
Won't be long before we're all solving impossible encryption problems.
Sure it will. Right after I receive my new, wall-sized television in a poster tube, unroll it, and hang it on my wall -- as I've been promised will happen any time now for the last 20 years.
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In the demo, the accelerator was floored while the brake was held down as hard as possible. Want to guess what happened?
I'll tell you...
The car stayed in place, spewing smoke from its rear tires in the process.
I thought that had put the nail in the coffin of Sudden Acceleration years ago.
Sorry, Big Wrong here. The M14 fires the .308 (7.62 x 51mm) cartridge, which provides virtually identical ballistics to the .30-06 (7.62 x 61mm) round in the M-1. All the .308 proved was that you could put a .30-06 into a case about a half inch shorter.
It was from that mis-step that we went to the 5.56 (.223) cartridge in the M-16 that wasn't even initially intended for the U.S. Army. We were giving AR-15 (civilian model of the M16) to our more slightly statured (shorter & lighter) South Vietmese allies when some one realized that a heavy rifle with heavy ammunition that nobody could control on full-auto fire didn't make nearly as much sense in the jungle where visibility was often 15 yards or less, as did this toy rifle we were giving to everyone else.
As a result, the M16 and its derivations have now served for as long as any other service rifle in the U.S. Military.
And btw, it was the Germans back in 1941-1942 who realized that it didn't make sense for their soliders to carry 1000 metre rifles when most battles were fought at under 400 metres. A smaller, lighter, cheaper rifle with ammunition only effective out to 400 metres that allowed selective fire as well made the individual foot solider a much more effective fighter. Too bad that the USA had to learn that lesson TWICE!! (M14, before M16.)
I have no more concept of Burning Libraries of Congress than I do of Space Shuttle Fuel tanks (with or without out maneuvering engine fuel included). I've never used either of them.
However, I was once rear-ended while driving a 1971 Ford Pinto. So I'd like to know what it is equivalent to in Fully Fueled Pinto Bombs, thank you.
Or if you can convert it to furlongs per fortnight, I can take it from there.
1a: And how long after that before it reports you to the feds when your try.
2: If you strip out those little circles that the system detects, or alter them enough to fail detection as currency, how many people you'd pass this bill to will notice the difference? Automatic bill changers maybe yes, but people???
One way to test a thesis is to view the result if it were true.
The record industry wishes us to believe that every download is a lost sale. If true, what would their sales be if all downloads had never happened? Does this figure sound reasonable? Or does it exceed the total GNP of the G-7 nations, plus Nigeria?
I, for one, do not believe for a moment that Internet music sharing has kept the music industry from suddenly expanding several times in size. And since they can't tell the truth about this, I don't believe them about much else either. Do you?
Then again, I don't believe memos allegedly typed in 1971 clearly using Microsoft Word are authentic either. But if they are, then I'm using them as prior art to invalidate all patents relating to Microsoft Office!
We need better ways to protect the small innovators from the many tricks large corporations can use to threaten, intimidate, bankrupt, and harass them-- regardless of who is actually in the right.
What we need are actual prosecutions, and sentences with real teeth in them, for knowingly filing false cases, and barratry in all its forms. It's time for lawyers to go to jail when they knowingly misuse the law!
And we can start by making an example out of the RIAA!
Even if VB.NET really is nothing more than VC++ in VB sheep's clothing.
Yeah, if they're standing right next to each other.
Maybe someday there will be a Bluetooth Across America day, just to prove that we can.
And governments have this control. Both to enforce censorship (filtering) of messages, and to shut it down completely. And don't you dare believe otherwise! They call it National Security, and it's part of every country.
Where is JPEG 2000 in all this? Are there any camera's supporting it yet? I'd prefer that over a new RAW format myself.
So they got a C&D letter. And probably from a real lawyer on actual letterhead. This is the lowest and cheapest form of legal intimidation. I've gotten one before, as have many other people. By itself it doesn't mean anything beyond a lawyer being paid to tell you Don't do that, or we'll be really pissed!
I'd say, get a lawyer in return. Get a cheap, or free lawyer. Get the ACLU (they like to defend free speech rights). Then send a letter in return. As for myself, the very best nasty C&D letter and their outstanding response will show you that a lot of times, this really is just a cheap scare.
Because, however, IANAL, do consult with one. And point him in the direction of: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc (1994).
Dubious, am I, of such an achievement. I speak from the experience of writing code myself for many years. That is just a whole lot of code simply for the purpose of selling a mod chip to a soon-to-be obsolete product. Any coding team this good could be making a lot of money working for any major software vendor.
I would accept that they modified a block of existing, open source code, and be impressed by that achievement alone. But that's not what the summary says.
As for what the article says, well, I'll have to read that directly after the /. tsunami passes.
The town is probably just doing a CYA in the event that there are nude sunbathers inadvertently photographed in the privacy of their own backyards. It's not like they'd want to reshoot the database if that happened.
It's the town's CYA because maybe some of the citizens didn't C-Their-A's.
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W00t!
Looks like all HP's done is trade an old dog for a new dog. Say what you like, but they're both still dogs.
And now long is that in Internet years?
Open standards good!
Proprietary standards bad!
Haven't we learned this yet?
Be very scared. If this trial succeeds, you'll be forced into the Microsoft upgrade schedule for everything, instead of upgrading on your own schedule.
I don't upgrade operating systems because my old computer won't even run the modern OS well. WinXP would take nearly 2/3's of my maxed out 384MB just to load itself. I'm stuck with what my hardware can handle.
It is in the best interests of all of us that Microsoft does not succeed in this!
Microsoft finally admitted it. It's a feature!!!
Here's what I don't understand.
They added the revenue to a previous quarter if it came in within a few days of that quarter.
They got the revenue, even if it arrived in the next quarter.
Seems to me that this money did arrive, just a bit late. So they have one bad quarter where they only book revenue received minus revenue already booked, and continue forward from there.
They did get the money, didn't they? Even if it arrive a month later or so.
That would seem a small problem -- until they made it a big problem by lying about it (Hello Martha Stewart).
This is all a stupid game of Leapfrog, taking us all as suckers for a ride. To wit:
1: Increase copyright lengths in the USA.
2: Claim Europe is out of step "with the world" because their copyrights are only 50 years now, instead of life + 75.
3: Increase European copyrights to exceed the "world standard".
4: Claim the USA is now "out of step with the world" because their copyrights aren't as long as the Eurpoean standard.
5: Demand increasing USA copyright terms to exceed European copyrights.
6: PROFIT!!!
7: Goto #1.
I believe whatever copyright existed when a work was created and released to the public should remain in force for that work, and expire on schedule. Clearly that copyright was sufficient to insprie the creation of that work at the time, which is the stated purpose of all copyrights!
You know, the more things get unfair, the less I'm worried about "stealing" music over the Internet. I would not take physical product from a store, but that's a very different thing.
HOWEVER, the music industry has very little to worry about from me because frankly just about nothing today is worth listening to.
Lawmakers, get a clue!
Sure it will. Right after I receive my new, wall-sized television in a poster tube, unroll it, and hang it on my wall -- as I've been promised will happen any time now for the last 20 years.