Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, Linux's accusers would certainly want you to believe my client has stolen code from SCO, and they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company producer and entertainer and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the GPL, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
I know Linux seems guilty. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a free operating system is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must acquit. Here look at the monkey , look at the silly monkey.
I dont mean to be offtopic or seen as a flamebait, but where are all the slashdotters clamoring for the scrapping of the ISS program, in order to save the Hubble satellite?
I think a great way for NASA to get out of its current catch-22 would be to fake a disaster, get the astro/cosmonauts to evac in the soyuz, and de-orbit the station with a big bang and lots of sparks and contrails...
with the popularity of FPSes, why not have arcade machines (w/ comfortable seats and controls) lined up? Give like 5 lives for 25 cents to play Counterstrike, Unreal 2xxx, Halo, BF1492 or whatever...
Just have each terminal present the list of games being played and enable it to connect to the appropriate server.
it would sure beat lugging your whole computer system to a LAN party... and there wouldnt be any cheaters.
since Tom's Hardware concludes that the processing power isnt quite there yet for multiple high-rez monitors, why not just settle for multiple TV-sets at TV-rez?
Not only TVs are cheaper, so you can afford more, but you could have wall to wall to ceiling of TVs on a rack...
Or throw that option out altogether, and get a LCD projector, expand the FOV to 180 degree, and project it on a concave screen? or would you have to project it on a semi-transparent convex screen from behind?
I remember something along the lines of that story, from wired:
Gene therapy may be a distant dream for humans, but for rodents the future is now. By adding and subtracting DNA, researchers have already bred lab animals that can gorge on fatty foods and stay thin. Others build up muscle without lifting a paw. Still others boast unparalleled powers of recovery or regrow lost cartilage. But what if scientists combined all their improvements in a single supermouse? Our ripped little rodent would look something like this.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/images/ ST _mouse_32.jpg
I remember in one of my linguistics courses, I read about one scholar who, after describing how the Norman invasion of England added over 10,000 new words to the English language, stated English should be classified as a dialect of French.
Usually, words in one language which describe something that does not have a concept in the assimilating language stay unchanged. "Sushi" is one example.
A funny example of a word evolving between languages is "budget": Middle English bouget, wallet, from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge, leather bag, from Latin bulga, of Celtic origin. (http://www.bartleby.com/61/9/B0530900.ht ml)
when I played GTA 3 and Vice City without cheating, I tried my best not to die when I had full-armor, and a bunch of well-loaded weapons, cuz dying meant having to restock.
I was thinking more along the lines of, Complete Classical Music, Complete 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. or even bigger catalogues.
Right now, it's possible to get a 40gb iPod, but what size do you expect to be able to buy in two to five years?
I couldnt possibly fit all my cd collection onto a 40gb iPod already... when terabyte iPods come to the market, I'm pretty sure people will stop bothering with digitizing one CD at a time.
what if you can buy an iPod that comes pre-loaded with an entire catalogue of music? or with one of those MICA card readers, so you can buy music catalogues on MICA cards and switch between them?
with the increasing amount of storage available for portable music devices, it's only a matter of time before end-users grow tired of digitizing one CD at a time.
it's proven as fact that Earth got meteorites originating on Mars.
the only way to prove it worked the other way would be to find meteorites on Mars that originated on Earth... but we dont have the resources to do that yet.
heck, we might have meteorites on Earth that originated on other solar system bodies, but we dont have enough data to make sure yet.
so i wouldnt discount the remote possibility that one of the big meteors that hit Earth during prehistoric times could have kicked up enough debris out into space, and that some of it might have found its way to Europa, and other solar system bodies.
i'm still looking forward to the day some gaming company makes a games that has cars which you can actually wrap around a telephone pole, for example, and have the character driving it ejected through the windshield and fragged upon hitting pavement.
that an other realistic accident car-damage and fatalities.
if you have in-game car accidents linked to driver-character mortality, then maybe players could drive more carefully? just a thought.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2533735 Saturn Moon 'Could Look Like Sweden'
By John von Radowitz, Science Correspondent, PA News, in Seattle
A probe due to land on Saturn's moon, Titan, could discover a world that looks "a little bit like Sweden or Northern Canada", one of the mission's scientists said.
The Cassini spacecraft is due to reach Saturn in July after an epic journey lasting seven years.
On January 14 next year, the American orbiter will send a European lander parachuting down to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan - one of the most mysterious bodies in the Solar System.
No-one knows for certain what the probe, called Huygens, will find as it drops through Titan's smoggy methane and nitrogen atmosphere which is four times thicker than the Earth's.
But scientists have found new clues using the Earth's biggest radio telescope as a giant radar to bounce signals off the moon's surface.
Images from the 300-metre wide Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico indicate the presence of seas and lakes - but not of water. These would be seas of ethane and methane liquified by Titan's frigid surface temperature of minus 179 degrees Celsius.
If Huygens lands in such a lake of liquid lighter fuel it will float on the surface, taking photos and collecting data. Scientists hope the probe would also survive an impact on soft ground or snow, but landing on a hard or rocky surface would destroy it.
Dr Ralph Lorenz, a mission scientist based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, yesterday described what he expected Huygens to encounter.
Despite Titan being such an alien world, its physical appearance was likely to be similar to parts of the Earth, he said.
He told the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Seattle: "I think what we'll see is a rugged, but muted landscape.
You don't have the sort of freeze and thaw shattering process that gives you lots of sharp mountains.
"I think we'll see a lot of impact craters. Impact cratering occurs everywhere in the Solar System and on Titan, being a fairly sluggish environment, erosion is fairly slow.
"A lot of these will be filled with liquid to form circular lakes, rim-shaped lakes, bullseye lakes; horseshoe lakes. So I think we'll see something maybe a bit like Sweden or Northern Canada."
He said the probe would hit the surface at five metres per second. "If we landed on a solid lump of ice or a rock then its got to be all over," said Dr Lorenz. "If we landed on snow or something like sand then we should survive and continue to transmit data."
Nearly half the size of Earth, Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere. Scientists believe there may be a deep layer of water ice beneath the hydrocarbon surface.
An intriguing possibility is that asteroids or comets hitting the surface might have melted the water ice and cause it to mix with the methane and ethane. This could theoretically give rise to organic chemicals - including amino acids, the precursors of life.
Dr Lorenz said 20 gaseous organic chemicals had been detected on Titan, and many more may exist in solid form on the surface.
However he thought although the first steps towards biology may be seen on Titan the world was too cold for the development of life itself.
"If you were to introduce microbes down there they might survive, but the question of how life evolves is a different story," he said.
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Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, Linux's accusers would certainly want you to believe my client has stolen code from SCO, and they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself. But Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk who carried a gun and ran from the mob. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense.
But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case. Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company producer and entertainer and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the GPL, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this supposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
I know Linux seems guilty. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a free operating system is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must acquit. Here look at the monkey , look at the silly monkey.
The defense rests.
I dont mean to be offtopic or seen as a flamebait, but where are all the slashdotters clamoring for the scrapping of the ISS program, in order to save the Hubble satellite?
I think a great way for NASA to get out of its current catch-22 would be to fake a disaster, get the astro/cosmonauts to evac in the soyuz, and de-orbit the station with a big bang and lots of sparks and contrails...
to put a green bar over the letter S in their hangman game...
but Fox would have forced them to shutdown their Simpsons Fan website
If my first impression hadnt been guided by /. I would've read it out loud as:
Linn-ess
Sounds like Linus, eh.
that they also avoided renaming it to LinOS, to avoid getting scolded at by the Linux community?
with the popularity of FPSes, why not have arcade machines (w/ comfortable seats and controls) lined up? Give like 5 lives for 25 cents to play Counterstrike, Unreal 2xxx, Halo, BF1492 or whatever...
Just have each terminal present the list of games being played and enable it to connect to the appropriate server.
it would sure beat lugging your whole computer system to a LAN party... and there wouldnt be any cheaters.
Ender's Game?
The frying of their video card got me thinking...
since Tom's Hardware concludes that the processing power isnt quite there yet for multiple high-rez monitors, why not just settle for multiple TV-sets at TV-rez?
Not only TVs are cheaper, so you can afford more, but you could have wall to wall to ceiling of TVs on a rack...
Or throw that option out altogether, and get a LCD projector, expand the FOV to 180 degree, and project it on a concave screen? or would you have to project it on a semi-transparent convex screen from behind?
I *think* the UT2k4 demo supports multi-display...
I'm not home so I cant verify this, but I remember in the setup options seeing a configurable Field of View (FOV) angle.
Is multidisplay what this option is about?
forgot to mention that GDF 8 is the gene that they knock out to get those ripped mice
I remember something along the lines of that story, from wired:
/ ST _mouse_32.jpg
Gene therapy may be a distant dream for humans, but for rodents the future is now. By adding and subtracting DNA, researchers have already bred lab animals that can gorge on fatty foods and stay thin. Others build up muscle without lifting a paw. Still others boast unparalleled powers of recovery or regrow lost cartilage. But what if scientists combined all their improvements in a single supermouse? Our ripped little rodent would look something like this.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/images
bigger image here:
http://www.mondolithic.com/00Gallery09.htm
they evolve or merge with more influential ones.
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that's basic linguistics for you.
I remember in one of my linguistics courses, I read about one scholar who, after describing how the Norman invasion of England added over 10,000 new words to the English language, stated English should be classified as a dialect of French.
Usually, words in one language which describe something that does not have a concept in the assimilating language stay unchanged. "Sushi" is one example.
A funny example of a word evolving between languages is "budget":
Middle English bouget, wallet, from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge, leather bag, from Latin bulga, of Celtic origin.
(http://www.bartleby.com/61/9/B0530900.h
when I played GTA 3 and Vice City without cheating, I tried my best not to die when I had full-armor, and a bunch of well-loaded weapons, cuz dying meant having to restock.
in commerce, there exists a concept called "bulk pricing".
so, while it's true that a lot of CDs contain filler and a couple of good songs, the music industry is now at a technological crossroads...
if it doesnt adapt, it could end up making a paradigm shift without a clutch, so to speak.
I was thinking more along the lines of, Complete Classical Music, Complete 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. or even bigger catalogues.
Right now, it's possible to get a 40gb iPod, but what size do you expect to be able to buy in two to five years?
I couldnt possibly fit all my cd collection onto a 40gb iPod already... when terabyte iPods come to the market, I'm pretty sure people will stop bothering with digitizing one CD at a time.
what if you can buy an iPod that comes pre-loaded with an entire catalogue of music? or with one of those MICA card readers, so you can buy music catalogues on MICA cards and switch between them?
with the increasing amount of storage available for portable music devices, it's only a matter of time before end-users grow tired of digitizing one CD at a time.
remember when the first CDs were impossible for the end-user to copy?
yes?
good.
was that Apple would get its hands on that tech for a future iPod...
I'm on Tribe.net, I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and 99% of my "friends" are in California.
;-)
I certainly hope I can call a few of them to go out when/if I visit that State...
next to my George W Bush lawn-gnome
it's proven as fact that Earth got meteorites originating on Mars.
the only way to prove it worked the other way would be to find meteorites on Mars that originated on Earth... but we dont have the resources to do that yet.
heck, we might have meteorites on Earth that originated on other solar system bodies, but we dont have enough data to make sure yet.
so i wouldnt discount the remote possibility that one of the big meteors that hit Earth during prehistoric times could have kicked up enough debris out into space, and that some of it might have found its way to Europa, and other solar system bodies.
we dont know yet. only after we've successfully sent a probe will we know if the drapes match the rug.
i'm still looking forward to the day some gaming company makes a games that has cars which you can actually wrap around a telephone pole, for example, and have the character driving it ejected through the windshield and fragged upon hitting pavement.
that an other realistic accident car-damage and fatalities.
if you have in-game car accidents linked to driver-character mortality, then maybe players could drive more carefully? just a thought.
or Canada... same thing, really.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2533735
Saturn Moon 'Could Look Like Sweden'
By John von Radowitz, Science Correspondent, PA News, in Seattle
A probe due to land on Saturn's moon, Titan, could discover a world that looks "a little bit like Sweden or Northern Canada", one of the mission's scientists said.
The Cassini spacecraft is due to reach Saturn in July after an epic journey lasting seven years.
On January 14 next year, the American orbiter will send a European lander parachuting down to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan - one of the most mysterious bodies in the Solar System.
No-one knows for certain what the probe, called Huygens, will find as it drops through Titan's smoggy methane and nitrogen atmosphere which is four times thicker than the Earth's.
But scientists have found new clues using the Earth's biggest radio telescope as a giant radar to bounce signals off the moon's surface.
Images from the 300-metre wide Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico indicate the presence of seas and lakes - but not of water. These would be seas of ethane and methane liquified by Titan's frigid surface temperature of minus 179 degrees Celsius.
If Huygens lands in such a lake of liquid lighter fuel it will float on the surface, taking photos and collecting data. Scientists hope the probe would also survive an impact on soft ground or snow, but landing on a hard or rocky surface would destroy it.
Dr Ralph Lorenz, a mission scientist based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, yesterday described what he expected Huygens to encounter.
Despite Titan being such an alien world, its physical appearance was likely to be similar to parts of the Earth, he said.
He told the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Seattle: "I think what we'll see is a rugged, but muted landscape.
You don't have the sort of freeze and thaw shattering process that gives you lots of sharp mountains.
"I think we'll see a lot of impact craters. Impact cratering occurs everywhere in the Solar System and on Titan, being a fairly sluggish environment, erosion is fairly slow.
"A lot of these will be filled with liquid to form circular lakes, rim-shaped lakes, bullseye lakes; horseshoe lakes. So I think we'll see something maybe a bit like Sweden or Northern Canada."
He said the probe would hit the surface at five metres per second. "If we landed on a solid lump of ice or a rock then its got to be all over," said Dr Lorenz. "If we landed on snow or something like sand then we should survive and continue to transmit data."
Nearly half the size of Earth, Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere. Scientists believe there may be a deep layer of water ice beneath the hydrocarbon surface.
An intriguing possibility is that asteroids or comets hitting the surface might have melted the water ice and cause it to mix with the methane and ethane. This could theoretically give rise to organic chemicals - including amino acids, the precursors of life.
Dr Lorenz said 20 gaseous organic chemicals had been detected on Titan, and many more may exist in solid form on the surface.
However he thought although the first steps towards biology may be seen on Titan the world was too cold for the development of life itself.
"If you were to introduce microbes down there they might survive, but the question of how life evolves is a different story," he said.