here's one I used to do to the Radio shack Tandy line of machines they had on display at the shop
10 FOR X = 1 to 65535
20 poke x, int(rnd(1)*255)
30 NEXT X
It made them beep and squeal and display all kinds of funny lines. I'd walk out of the store right after I kicked it off and then walk back later laughing at the puzzled shop clerks trying to sell 'disabled' merchandise.
'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'
I'm guessing this isn't taking into account the physiological gap between their body parts caused by all of the shrapnel they can get on special at their local coffee shops?
You're right it's not a part of the kernel, but cdrtools et al come with a lot of distributions. I don't think they are covered under that patent. If you read the patent it states specifically that disc-at-once and track-at-once are pre-existing technologies. That's what most of the linux distro's I've seen use. Now I do believe that nautalis in Gnome 2+ has something similar to DirectCD, which is the type of thing this patent seems to cover. (I'm no patent guru, but I did read the patent claim)
It's becuase when you are born, you're capable of pronouncing anything. As you grow up listening to the sounds of those around you talking, your brain 'tunes in' to sounds you perceive as relevant and hear often. All other sounds are treated as background noise. So -- Americans raised on English not only have trouble speaking chinese, but they have trouble hearing it correctly. Look at the Nguni languages of certain African tribes. They searialize syllables consisting of clicks and ticks of the tongue that we would at best interpret as salivary overhead. This is why westerners, not just americans, have trouble with eastern languages. Tones, pauses, pitch, all of these things are involved in every language, far beyond the simple translation of text into phonetic looking symbols. The phonetics we're familiar with limit us to certain languages. You'd write out 'exactly' as EX-AKT-LEE or something like that, but how would you write out the ticking clicking clopping sounds of the Nguni? You wouldn't know where to begin. You have no context for them. Hell, even most people can't properly hear the pronunciation of Yiddish or Hebrew, and that's more closesly related to western languages than the oriental suite. Face it, it's the upbrining of people speaking oriental tongues that causes the R L confusion -- not their intelligence or so called lack therof as the pundits seem to assume.
They are dumping it. Go to SCOX on finance.yahoo.com and click on the 'insider' action. They've been dumping it off and on since this whole thing started. They can't keep on doing it though because there are SEC regulations on insider trading -- you cannot action your stock as an insider for something on the order of 6 weeks (months maybe?) of a big public announcement. While I don't know the details, my dad wasn't able to action any shares in the company he works for when then announced the acquisition of another subsidiary. I don't know if that applies to lawsuits, but I'm betting it does.
One has to wonder if maybe Boise et al weren't railroaded into signing up for this case in the first place. They may have thought better if they knew what ground they'd eventually be treading on. Now on the other hand, they may just be greedy lawyers rooting for the bad guys, but in the past Boise has had nothing but a good reputation. Kinda makes you wonder, or at least makes me wonder. Contracts are contracts and there probably is no turning back for the lawyers at this point. (IANAL but then again, most of us aren't so I probably don't really need to put that.)
I do think that the real reason any president enters a 'space race' is so when they spend money on Star Wars programs it can be disguised as 'space exploration cash.' I'm not leftist at all. I can't think of any other reason they'd be doing it. Pride isn't in the interest of Billions of dollars anymore these days. At least, not that I know of.
got me. I guess it just gives them time so the bill can be amended or repealed. Or bought out entirely, to keep in playing with your conspiracy theory -- there is a nice little escape clause that says the committee can reccommend against the label altogether if they so choose.
Granted. They do badmouth eachother.
They do indeed put their foot in it in that respect.
I was more focused on the fact that James, and yourself, seemed to lump all of the OSS developers together as if they had some sort of common tree they were all growing on. Revealing their source code is the only thing they have in common in my mind. (Not up to Jedi standards I'm sad to report) They may all be working on competing ways to solve the same problem, but that doesn't mean that they are doing eachother harm. Where one succeeds, and the other fails, it would benefit them if a third source would come in and pluck the goodies from both their projects. This way it would further the cause, darwin style. Throwing stones at eachother fuels the fire by making them each add more 'features' to their own programs, allowing still more options for the third guy down the road. I still see it ultimately, not immediately, as healthy competition. True enough though that they are hurting themselves by not cooperating with eachother instead of name calling. But they certainly aren't hurting OSS as a whole.
I'm talking about open source, all of it, not just one brand of it. All of these companies or groups producing open source do not define themselves as a single figure skater. They are all competing with eachother as well. There is no oppositional logic at all here.
This kind of competeition is acutally good. The more 'variation in population' the more choices you have to 'select for' the best workings. You can run KDE on redhat if you want, or Ximian on Debian. Relax. Choice = good. This makes the darwinian evolution of OSS happen at an accellerated pace. Where's the problem again?
I remember in 1985 when I was back in grade school, there was an enourmous uproar about calculators being to kids brains what cigarettes are to our lungs. I used a calculator in math class, and I still know my multiplication tables. (I know that's impossible!)
Relax everyone, technology really isn't evil, you'll get used to your children being able to learn more from a box in a corner than from a blackboard and playdough, it's just going to take some time to get used to it. (And a little process debugging, to make sure the computers are actually used for something nice and educational, instead of porn and warez trade in the classroom)
I don't think they should be teaching powerpoint, or MS word per se, but "how to use pull down menus", and "click the print button when you want a hard copy" (yeah, they're little kids so this is actually a skill at this level), teaching them techniques for searching the internet for information etc are all good skills. That way even if microsoft takes a dive someday (I hope), the kids will still have learned something useful.
If you'd read the bill, it says that within 18 months of the enactment of the bill that it would be up to an agency (can't remember which off the top of my head) to come up with a label. (They suggest ADV actually)
I think that the costs of getting people to speak proper english will eventually be dwarfed by the cost savings of shipping call centers offshore. There are people who will learn to speak with american accents, and they will still work for less than acutal americans. Right now, moving back to the US will hold them over until they find a better solution. Not that I don't feel sorry for the people this will eventually affect, but with Dell (and most big companies) it's a numbers game, not a public works program. Nobody cares who is out of a job.
Now for my little tirade: I frankly think that's just the way the market evolves. No whining, if you're out of a job, get a new one. If you're complaining about putting food on the table, go back to school and clean gutters in the meantime. Make yourself smarter. Nobody owes you a job, especially if it's cheaper to give it to someone else. I bust my ass to make my job worth what they pay me, I don't go in punch a clock and expect that the union or whatever will make things all better. (and certainly not the government) I don't care what other countries are doing, and what kind of benefits the teamsters offer. I make my own money, and I make myself worth it. That's one thing I feel very strongly about, and I can't stand people who complain that the 'government doesn't give them enough' or that 'all the big companies think about is money.' That's what capitalism is. That's why there are big companies. They aren't there to give people jobs, they exist to make money. If you work at it enough you can put yourself on the winning side of capitalism instead of complaining that you're just a victim of it.
Well that settles it then. You don't have to be an omnipotent spirit to create a living being. Huh. What's next on the list?
I expect to see sometime in the near future: Post Foods successfully recreates pop-tarts in the lab.. Cautions that Frosted Flakes are still a few decades off
Is the up2date service going to continue to work for us end users who still use RH9, or are we going to have to go Fedora treating our existing installations as defunct? I've spent quite a lot of hours configuring my systems, and I think you're going to make a lot of angry users if things change too drastically. I know a number of people who are already shunning the name RedHat in favor of the other flavors.
Phew! I'm relieved to see all they are doing is expressing that which they hold deep within their hearts -- the desire to see companies everywhere strive to charge large sums of money for anything useful. And for the willingness of the population to scoff in the direction of anything with a 'less than snazzy' pricetag. I was actually worried that they were selfish bastards who thought nothing of anyone but themselves. They're really just trying to preserve the American Dream, how incredibly noble of these good 'ol boys.
I thought the same thing. Those who were lost in the complexities of the 'architect scene' thought it was dumb. I thought it was great. It was the climax (thus far -- I have yet to see Revolutions) of both stories. It was a little hard to follow if you are not very articulate, or unable to tolerate those who are, but I really liked it. I guess it's all just a matter of opinion, just like all movies are. After all, there are still some people out there who thought Point Break was a good movie, and those who think Mr. Reeves is a good actor. I personally think it's a very good thing that they keep his lines short like "I know kung fu" and "Whoa!" Kinda reminds me of Ted Theodore Logan no matter how good the concept of the Matrix is.
To finish, I like the Matrix flicks, but I don't think that the actors had anything at all to do with my opinion.
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10 FOR X = 1 to 65535
It made them beep and squeal and display all kinds of funny lines. I'd walk out of the store right after I kicked it off and then walk back later laughing at the puzzled shop clerks trying to sell 'disabled' merchandise.20 poke x, int(rnd(1)*255)
30 NEXT X
I was 11 at the time.
It was a joke. Geez kids.
I'm guessing this isn't taking into account the physiological gap between their body parts caused by all of the shrapnel they can get on special at their local coffee shops?
Go figure.
They work great now though. no problems whatsoever -- they are stable, fast, and kick all the ass you want.
You're right it's not a part of the kernel, but cdrtools et al come with a lot of distributions. I don't think they are covered under that patent. If you read the patent it states specifically that disc-at-once and track-at-once are pre-existing technologies. That's what most of the linux distro's I've seen use. Now I do believe that nautalis in Gnome 2+ has something similar to DirectCD, which is the type of thing this patent seems to cover. (I'm no patent guru, but I did read the patent claim)
It's becuase when you are born, you're capable of pronouncing anything. As you grow up listening to the sounds of those around you talking, your brain 'tunes in' to sounds you perceive as relevant and hear often. All other sounds are treated as background noise. So -- Americans raised on English not only have trouble speaking chinese, but they have trouble hearing it correctly. Look at the Nguni languages of certain African tribes. They searialize syllables consisting of clicks and ticks of the tongue that we would at best interpret as salivary overhead. This is why westerners, not just americans, have trouble with eastern languages. Tones, pauses, pitch, all of these things are involved in every language, far beyond the simple translation of text into phonetic looking symbols. The phonetics we're familiar with limit us to certain languages. You'd write out 'exactly' as EX-AKT-LEE or something like that, but how would you write out the ticking clicking clopping sounds of the Nguni? You wouldn't know where to begin. You have no context for them. Hell, even most people can't properly hear the pronunciation of Yiddish or Hebrew, and that's more closesly related to western languages than the oriental suite. Face it, it's the upbrining of people speaking oriental tongues that causes the R L confusion -- not their intelligence or so called lack therof as the pundits seem to assume.
point taken. thanks.
They are dumping it. Go to SCOX on finance.yahoo.com and click on the 'insider' action. They've been dumping it off and on since this whole thing started. They can't keep on doing it though because there are SEC regulations on insider trading -- you cannot action your stock as an insider for something on the order of 6 weeks (months maybe?) of a big public announcement. While I don't know the details, my dad wasn't able to action any shares in the company he works for when then announced the acquisition of another subsidiary. I don't know if that applies to lawsuits, but I'm betting it does.
One has to wonder if maybe Boise et al weren't railroaded into signing up for this case in the first place. They may have thought better if they knew what ground they'd eventually be treading on. Now on the other hand, they may just be greedy lawyers rooting for the bad guys, but in the past Boise has had nothing but a good reputation. Kinda makes you wonder, or at least makes me wonder. Contracts are contracts and there probably is no turning back for the lawyers at this point. (IANAL but then again, most of us aren't so I probably don't really need to put that.)
I do think that the real reason any president enters a 'space race' is so when they spend money on Star Wars programs it can be disguised as 'space exploration cash.' I'm not leftist at all. I can't think of any other reason they'd be doing it. Pride isn't in the interest of Billions of dollars anymore these days. At least, not that I know of.
got me. I guess it just gives them time so the bill can be amended or repealed. Or bought out entirely, to keep in playing with your conspiracy theory -- there is a nice little escape clause that says the committee can reccommend against the label altogether if they so choose.
I was more focused on the fact that James, and yourself, seemed to lump all of the OSS developers together as if they had some sort of common tree they were all growing on. Revealing their source code is the only thing they have in common in my mind. (Not up to Jedi standards I'm sad to report) They may all be working on competing ways to solve the same problem, but that doesn't mean that they are doing eachother harm. Where one succeeds, and the other fails, it would benefit them if a third source would come in and pluck the goodies from both their projects. This way it would further the cause, darwin style. Throwing stones at eachother fuels the fire by making them each add more 'features' to their own programs, allowing still more options for the third guy down the road. I still see it ultimately, not immediately, as healthy competition. True enough though that they are hurting themselves by not cooperating with eachother instead of name calling. But they certainly aren't hurting OSS as a whole.
I'm talking about open source, all of it, not just one brand of it. All of these companies or groups producing open source do not define themselves as a single figure skater. They are all competing with eachother as well. There is no oppositional logic at all here.
This kind of competeition is acutally good. The more 'variation in population' the more choices you have to 'select for' the best workings. You can run KDE on redhat if you want, or Ximian on Debian. Relax. Choice = good. This makes the darwinian evolution of OSS happen at an accellerated pace. Where's the problem again?
Relax everyone, technology really isn't evil, you'll get used to your children being able to learn more from a box in a corner than from a blackboard and playdough, it's just going to take some time to get used to it. (And a little process debugging, to make sure the computers are actually used for something nice and educational, instead of porn and warez trade in the classroom)
I don't think they should be teaching powerpoint, or MS word per se, but "how to use pull down menus", and "click the print button when you want a hard copy" (yeah, they're little kids so this is actually a skill at this level), teaching them techniques for searching the internet for information etc are all good skills. That way even if microsoft takes a dive someday (I hope), the kids will still have learned something useful.
If you'd read the bill, it says that within 18 months of the enactment of the bill that it would be up to an agency (can't remember which off the top of my head) to come up with a label. (They suggest ADV actually)
It will make it nice and easy for me to write a rule for .spamassasin. That's a damn[ed] thing if you ask me.
Now for my little tirade: I frankly think that's just the way the market evolves. No whining, if you're out of a job, get a new one. If you're complaining about putting food on the table, go back to school and clean gutters in the meantime. Make yourself smarter. Nobody owes you a job, especially if it's cheaper to give it to someone else. I bust my ass to make my job worth what they pay me, I don't go in punch a clock and expect that the union or whatever will make things all better. (and certainly not the government) I don't care what other countries are doing, and what kind of benefits the teamsters offer. I make my own money, and I make myself worth it. That's one thing I feel very strongly about, and I can't stand people who complain that the 'government doesn't give them enough' or that 'all the big companies think about is money.' That's what capitalism is. That's why there are big companies. They aren't there to give people jobs, they exist to make money. If you work at it enough you can put yourself on the winning side of capitalism instead of complaining that you're just a victim of it.
you forgot provide votes for politicians from the geek sector
I expect to see sometime in the near future: Post Foods successfully recreates pop-tarts in the lab.. Cautions that Frosted Flakes are still a few decades off
Is the up2date service going to continue to work for us end users who still use RH9, or are we going to have to go Fedora treating our existing installations as defunct? I've spent quite a lot of hours configuring my systems, and I think you're going to make a lot of angry users if things change too drastically. I know a number of people who are already shunning the name RedHat in favor of the other flavors.
Phew! I'm relieved to see all they are doing is expressing that which they hold deep within their hearts -- the desire to see companies everywhere strive to charge large sums of money for anything useful. And for the willingness of the population to scoff in the direction of anything with a 'less than snazzy' pricetag. I was actually worried that they were selfish bastards who thought nothing of anyone but themselves. They're really just trying to preserve the American Dream, how incredibly noble of these good 'ol boys.
I stand corrected.
To finish, I like the Matrix flicks, but I don't think that the actors had anything at all to do with my opinion.
Glade. It generates the gui, and all you have to do is fill in the callback routines, a la visual studio.