IANAL, of course, but IMNSHO, this is analogous to when AOL sent out the floppies, not the CDs.
They sent me a floppy disk. I chose to reformat and use it for my own purposes. Had I installed their software, I would have been bound by the EULA, but since the disk was unsolicited, I was free to reformat, fold, spindle, or mutilate it as I chose.
If it doesn't have the lawyer fine print in the ads saying it's a FREE CUE CAT, has anyone who got theirs from RS contacted the FTC or looked at their website for the false advertising info?
I'm well aware of the hardware limitations of the 8086 and the original PC (model 5150?). However, he did say someting to that effect (don't have the exact quote available).
I watched a story on the news this morning (on CNN) that the games in Sydney are suffering from a bit of controversy. Why? Well, Coke is one of the sponsors, and if you are caught drinking a Pepsi, you are 'banned' from entering until you get rid of it.
This sort of BS even got into the competition (and don't even get me started on the rules about what the athletes can wear on the medal stand)...
It seems that one of the Aussie gymnasts wanted to use "Australia is still my home" (I may have the title wrong) as the music for her floor exercise. Now, this song is from a QANTAS commercial. Unfortunately, QANTAS is NOT an official Olympic sponsor, some other airline is. And they bitched. At least in that case, sanity prevailed, and the girl was allowed to use her choice of music...
That's a good point! The guy building his house above mentioned all the wiring he was throwing throughout the house, but you've got to make sure you have an upgraded switchbox.
I assume however, that people using the ext2 filesystem (and any OTHER filesystem, for that matter) will be UPS'ed.
I couldn't find the reference on the ACM's web site, but I seem to recall that Dijkstra's article/letter was published sometime in 1968.
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Sure, they covered the American athlete, but they shouldn't have given her 95% coverage when she was 5 mins off the lead and 6th!
You didn't know they were going to do that? Ever since Seoul '88, their coverage has been: "Look, there's an American! He/She is out of the running, but look at Him/Her! Oh yeah, there are some furriners competing, but why would you want to look at them, after all we're showing you the AMERICAN!"
These people don't trust THEMSELVES to not have prurient interests,
You don't know how right you are. On another website I go to (yes there are others besides/.:-P), some teenage kid, who had been lambasting us all for being immoral, because pr0n, and otherthings are all obviously against the Bible, asked us for good filtering software -- FOR HIMSELF!
Fscking hypocrite, can't even keep himself from reading pr0n. Probably goes to goatse.cx all the time...
Maybe this makes Rambus a little evil, but it was only possible because the other manufacturer's either had bad lawyers, or tried to get away with something.
No. What happened was that JEDEC has a policy, prominently announced and shown on viewgraph at each meeting that members must disclose patents pending relating to standards under discussion, and must provide members with reasonable licensing agreements.
Rambus participated in discussions relating to SDRAM and DDR SDRAM without revealing those patents, and hence they got promulgated as part of a standard.
The other manufacturers did not "try to get away with something", Rambus did, by leaving JEDEC, and saying - AFTER THEY LEFT - "Oh, you know that standard you just approved? We have the patents!"
The original IBM 101 key keyboard (yes, they predated the PS/2) were the best ever made. Not too loud and clicky, but tactile enough for the 100wpm forward/40wpm backwards touch typist.
Mine was attached to one of the last genuine IBM AT's ever made (vintage '86 - just before the PS/2).
Worst I had to clean up was a coffee spill in a keyboard from a cow orker with a serious dandruff problem. While doing the cleanup, I discovered something else amusing.
Of course you did. He was spending his time at work orking cows! What did you expect????
Finally one of the panel stood up and said. I'm sorry, MP3s are here you're too late. There is hardware available, consumers like it and it has already been adopted as the defacto standard. You have no place to decide whether it gets adopted or not.
And the Clue Meter reads 11 (on a scale of 1 to 10 -- I borrowed Spinal Tap's meter).
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I believe ESRI is one of the standard formats, but you should also look into GeoTIFF, coming out of JPL.
Whoops... forgot to mnention this:
Section (b) DOES apply. It states that merchandise mailed in violation of (a) or within the exceptions contained therein is a gift (emphasis mine).
So they are in violation of (b), regardless.
Not to mention that their "this is a loan, you must only use it with our software" is a violation of section (b).
I forget his first name
Gordon.
Someone mod this guy up as +1 Funny.
Let's see...
in 1900, Relativity hadn't raised it's head (Lorentz had made some moves in that direction, but it hadn't been fully postulated).
Planck had just (with great reluctance) postulated the quantum, but was unhappy with the concept.
The idea of the photon was still a few years away (I believe Einstein's seminal paper on the Photelectric Effect was in 1905).
Yep, physics hasn't changed at all over the past 100 years!
IANAL, of course, but IMNSHO, this is analogous to when AOL sent out the floppies, not the CDs.
They sent me a floppy disk. I chose to reformat and use it for my own purposes. Had I installed their software, I would have been bound by the EULA, but since the disk was unsolicited, I was free to reformat, fold, spindle, or mutilate it as I chose.
If it doesn't have the lawyer fine print in the ads saying it's a FREE CUE CAT, has anyone who got theirs from RS contacted the FTC or looked at their website for the false advertising info?
I'm well aware of the hardware limitations of the 8086 and the original PC (model 5150?). However, he did say someting to that effect (don't have the exact quote available).
I watched a story on the news this morning (on CNN) that the games in Sydney are suffering from a bit of controversy. Why? Well, Coke is one of the sponsors, and if you are caught drinking a Pepsi, you are 'banned' from entering until you get rid of it.
This sort of BS even got into the competition (and don't even get me started on the rules about what the athletes can wear on the medal stand)...
It seems that one of the Aussie gymnasts wanted to use "Australia is still my home" (I may have the title wrong) as the music for her floor exercise. Now, this song is from a QANTAS commercial. Unfortunately, QANTAS is NOT an official Olympic sponsor, some other airline is. And they bitched. At least in that case, sanity prevailed, and the girl was allowed to use her choice of music...
This'll get modded down as redundant, but the exact quote is my .sig.
True, but this "outrage" is all from groups which are dedicated to freedom at the cost of security anyway
.sig, quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Then they are in good company. See the
That's a good point! The guy building his house above mentioned all the wiring he was throwing throughout the house, but you've got to make sure you have an upgraded switchbox.
I assume however, that people using the ext2 filesystem (and any OTHER filesystem, for that matter) will be UPS'ed.
A 1.66GHz chip in a desktop? Who in their right mind would need that kind of computing power?
And nobody will need more than 640K RAM. Just ask Bill Gates.
I couldn't find the reference on the ACM's web site, but I seem to recall that Dijkstra's article/letter was published sometime in 1968.
Sure, they covered the American athlete, but they shouldn't have given her 95% coverage when she was 5 mins off the lead and 6th!
You didn't know they were going to do that? Ever since Seoul '88, their coverage has been: "Look, there's an American! He/She is out of the running, but look at Him/Her! Oh yeah, there are some furriners competing, but why would you want to look at them, after all we're showing you the AMERICAN!"
But, believe it or not, Bridge is being considered as a demo "sport" for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
See the referent in this article (about halfway down).
Why the fsck are the VPs making decisions on what hardware will be run?
That's called "The Golden Rule", dude.
You know, "Them what has the gold, makes the rules!"
Good Morning Mr. Torvalds, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you!
I bet it didn't worked with LN2 because the number of free electrons in the semiconductors (silicon) was too low at that temperature.
But what if they PAID for those electrons?
These people don't trust THEMSELVES to not have prurient interests,
/. :-P), some teenage kid, who had been lambasting us all for being immoral, because pr0n, and otherthings are all obviously against the Bible, asked us for good filtering software -- FOR HIMSELF!
You don't know how right you are. On another website I go to (yes there are others besides
Fscking hypocrite, can't even keep himself from reading pr0n. Probably goes to goatse.cx all the time...
Maybe this makes Rambus a little evil, but it was only possible because the other manufacturer's either had bad lawyers, or tried to get away with something.
No. What happened was that JEDEC has a policy, prominently announced and shown on viewgraph at each meeting that members must disclose patents pending relating to standards under discussion, and must provide members with reasonable licensing agreements.
Rambus participated in discussions relating to SDRAM and DDR SDRAM without revealing those patents, and hence they got promulgated as part of a standard.
The other manufacturers did not "try to get away with something", Rambus did, by leaving JEDEC, and saying - AFTER THEY LEFT - "Oh, you know that standard you just approved? We have the patents!"
The original IBM 101 key keyboard (yes, they predated the PS/2) were the best ever made. Not too loud and clicky, but tactile enough for the 100wpm forward/40wpm backwards touch typist.
Mine was attached to one of the last genuine IBM AT's ever made (vintage '86 - just before the PS/2).
G-d, how I loved that keyboard!
Worst I had to clean up was a coffee spill in a keyboard from a cow orker with a serious dandruff problem. While doing the cleanup, I discovered something else amusing.
Of course you did. He was spending his time at work orking cows! What did you expect????
Finally one of the panel stood up and said. I'm sorry, MP3s are here you're too late. There is hardware available, consumers like it and it has already been adopted as the defacto standard. You have no place to decide whether it gets adopted or not.
And the Clue Meter reads 11 (on a scale of 1 to 10 -- I borrowed Spinal Tap's meter).
No he's not.
The lawyers got fubared again.