Oh... I forgot to mention. Windowmaker is my 'desktop' system of choice on Linux. I do use Gnome and KDE sometimes, if I fancy a change of scene. It's nice to have the freedom to do so;-)
And why should it? The desktop as we know it will probably be obsolete in a few years. IMHO the market for the desktop PC has probably peaked. The future belongs to peer to peer technologies for distributed 'computing' and data storage services accessed by devices that are a combination of mobile fone and PDA.
OSS development is light years ahead in this respect. And Linux in particular since its happy in embedded and supercomputing environments. The real future.
Boddingtons is garbage. Get some Theakstons Old Peculiar down yer neck.
As to the article, as soon as I saw the can of Guinness I knew they were BS merchants. Guinness tinned and draught is one of the most disgusting over hyped 'keg' brands available. To call that crap beer is blasphemy.
I still prefer my plan. After all it says x-prize *guidelines*;-) Guidelines are pretty flexible, forget all the nasty engineering stuff. Slip the judging panel 50 bucks and a bottle of bourbon each, problem solved. That still leaves about $9,999,750 in prize money for the taking.
It is a common problem ? you are in a bar or restaurant with your drink almost gone and you are desperately hoping that one of the staff will notice and offer you a refill.
Sounds like you need to develop bar presence, not a microcontroller bub.
Bar tender 1: Look at the dweeb waiting for a refill.
Bar tender 2: Five bucks says we can keep him dangling a whole hour.
Bar tender 1: (serving customer who's just walked in) You're on.
It was intended for release as an OSS project, but for security reasons we would've had to hunt down and terminate (with extreme prejudice) anyone outside the department who worked on or knew of the existence of any such project or device.
Also, for the record, we don't allways wear black. I for one (as my/. voting showed) am quite partial to Plaid.:)
"Its been said that to detect any civilization from its radio emissions requires a very narrow time frame"
The 'window' for a technological civilisation probably looks something like this....:
* Living in caves picking bugs off each other. * Discover fire. * Wheel invented. * Printing. * The enlightenment. * The industrial revolution. * Electronics Radio Computing Mega-Corporations. * Lawyers in Mega-Corps begin copyright/IP litigation. * Living in caves picking bugs off each other.
So yup, they're probably gonna find diddly-squat.:)
The following is an excerpt from a signal received and decoded by the seti@home team based at the Arecebo radio telescope.
a.l.yo.. b.se...re b.l.ng.t..us a...y.ur.b.ses...e...lo...to.u. al. ...ur b...........long to us a.l...ur bas....re.....ng....us all......bases......el..g..... all y.....ase...re belong... u. a...your..as...ar.....on......s a.....ur..... ....e be........us a...........es a.......ng to us all yo.........are belong to us all yo.....ses are be....... us a...........es are belo.......s
When questioned by reporters from the Daily Planet a seti@home researcher was quoted:
"The signal carrier appears to exhibit a marked blue shift as though the source were moving directly towards the Earth at a velocity of about 0.98c. We have no idea what it means."
It's the RIAAs job.. more specifically the Performing Rights Society or the NPMA [www.npma.org].. to collect royalty payments on the behalf of their members who own the copyright / mechanical copyright to material.
Legally, they are in the 'right' and the people violating copyright law are in the 'wrong', this is a fact, it is true, deal with it.
OK. IMHO, what they're doing now is a bit heavy handed, but these are early days in our new digital age. Ways and means are going to have to be thought out to deal, sensibly, with such disputes. Knee jerk reactions serve no one.
A more sensible way perhaps, of collecting royalties would be to charge ISPs a license to allow file sharing of copyrighted material to take place in their dataspace. Similar to what they do now with respect to Radio Stations and TV Networks. Royalty's on CDs are usually collected at the point of manufacture (CD pressing plant) based on numbers pressed. So hassling stores by returning CDs is pointless, the royalties been paid up front.
Royalty payments from radio stations are based on 'perceived' audience size. A large broadcaster say Radio One (in the UK) would pay ~ £20/min in royalties. So this is the sort of moolah we're talking about.
If this is the road that is chosen... then...
ISPs will pass these licensing costs on to their customers (TANSTAAFL dudes) bottom line... if you want to be able to 'freely' share copyrighted data, expect to pay more to get online.
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Forget the fact that noone is preventing consumers from using or buying competing products.
...
Oh yeah
Ever tried to buy a PC from a 'High Street' retailer (in the UK)
that does NOT come pre-installed with the MS windows OS? Fat chance.
Oh ... I forgot to mention. Windowmaker is my 'desktop' system ;-)
of choice on Linux. I do use Gnome and KDE sometimes, if I fancy
a change of scene. It's nice to have the freedom to do so
Linux will never truly become a 'desktop' system.
And why should it? The desktop as we know it will probably be
obsolete in a few years. IMHO the market for the desktop PC has
probably peaked. The future belongs to peer to peer technologies
for distributed 'computing' and data storage services accessed
by devices that are a combination of mobile fone and PDA.
OSS development is light years ahead in this respect. And Linux
in particular since its happy in embedded and supercomputing
environments. The real future.
Thats why MS is shitting its collective pants.
If Martin Taylor the guitarist knows he's got
an evil alter ego at MS?
but OUCH the $price$
Boddingtons is garbage. Get some Theakstons Old Peculiar down yer neck.
As to the article, as soon as I saw the can of Guinness I knew they
were BS merchants. Guinness tinned and draught is one of the most disgusting
over hyped 'keg' brands available. To call that crap beer is blasphemy.
This could be a good topic for a /. poll.
... For. ... Against. ... Doh.
Copyright Laws?
1
2
3
I wouldn't let the bozo (pictured in the article) near my grandfather clock.
...
Just *what* does the imbecile think he's doing? Bloody vandal.
The real questions in physics are
Do Quantum Mechanics charge more by the hour than Classical Mechanics?
Do they work weekends?
Can they fix my TV?
jokes not meant be funny.
1 ... capture Sadman. ... borrow WMD/scud from Sadman. ... use WMD/scud to win x-prize. ... profit $45,000,000
:-)
2
3
4
Sadman would make a good test 'pilot'. (no need for a chute)
Hmmm. Do I smell a Marvel Comics conspiracy ...
I mean. Willyalookatdafacts:
contact *Lee Kirby* , X prize.
Sony owe Stan $10,000,000 (alledgedly).
What's goin on here?
Yeah, it's called the ground. ........ SPLAT ... POP ... chute deployed. :-)
I still prefer my plan. ;-)
After all it says x-prize *guidelines*
Guidelines are pretty flexible, forget all the nasty engineering stuff.
Slip the judging panel 50 bucks and a bottle of bourbon each, problem solved.
That still leaves about $9,999,750 in prize money for the taking.
Now where can i find three volunteers?
The name Starchaser is a bit optimistic. ... LEOlimper.
:-) so a parachute is somewhat redundant.
How about
So far all they've done is chuck it off the back of a plane.
Anyway to get the 10 megabucks the thing only has to be
capable of launching three people into space.
No mention of gettin em back
Now where can i find three volunteers????
British Rocket Science 1950 - present.
...
Scene: Top secret rocket testing range somewhere in
the home counties. The Mk IV rocket squats
on it's launching pad.
WC Ponsonby-Psmythe: What ho chaps spiffing what?
So this is the old jalopy what?
Gen. Fforbes-Fforbes: Jolly good show. I say you
eggs what times the orrf?
Private Erk: 0600 m'lud. (tugs forelock)
Ponsonby-Psmythe: Top hole. Here comes the boffin.
Prof. Quatermass: (Reading instructions on box)
Hmm. Light blue touch paper
Stand well back. Ahhh.
Ponsonby-Psmythe: What's the Cricket score? Had a
jolly old punt on old bean.
No wonder the UK got nowhere fast.
It is a common problem ? you are in a bar or restaurant with your drink almost gone and you are desperately hoping that one of the staff will notice and offer you a refill.
... Er ... Er guys ...
Sounds like you need to develop bar presence, not a microcontroller bub.
Bar tender 1: Look at the dweeb waiting for a refill.
Bar tender 2: Five bucks says we can keep him dangling a whole hour.
Bar tender 1: (serving customer who's just walked in) You're on.
Dweeb: (waving $20) Er
I work for an unlisted government (can't say which) department tasked
/. voting showed) am quite partial to Plaid. :)
with developing the procedures for just such an occurrence.
I am currently tasked with debugging the software (alpha release0.01b)
for our latest device.
Probe Anally Inserted Nano Forensic UtiLity (PAINFUL).
It was intended for release as an OSS project, but for security
reasons we would've had to hunt down and terminate (with extreme
prejudice) anyone outside the department who worked on or knew of
the existence of any such project or device.
Also, for the record, we don't allways wear black.
I for one (as my
"Its been said that to detect any civilization from its radio emissions requires a very narrow time frame"
.... :
:)
The 'window' for a technological civilisation probably looks something
like this
* Living in caves picking bugs off each other.
* Discover fire.
* Wheel invented.
* Printing.
* The enlightenment.
* The industrial revolution.
* Electronics Radio Computing Mega-Corporations.
* Lawyers in Mega-Corps begin copyright/IP litigation.
* Living in caves picking bugs off each other.
So yup, they're probably gonna find diddly-squat.
The following is an excerpt from a signal received and decoded
. ...ur b...........long to us ...... ....e be........us
:-)
by the seti@home team based at the Arecebo radio telescope.
a.l.yo.. b.se...re b.l.ng.t..us
a...y.ur.b.ses...e...lo...to.u.
al
a.l...ur bas....re.....ng....us
all......bases......el..g
all y.....ase...re belong... u.
a...your..as...ar.....on......s
a.....ur....
a...........es a.......ng to us
all yo.........are belong to us
all yo.....ses are be....... us
a...........es are belo.......s
When questioned by reporters from the Daily Planet a seti@home
researcher was quoted:
"The signal carrier appears to exhibit a marked blue shift as
though the source were moving directly towards the Earth at a
velocity of about 0.98c. We have no idea what it means."
It's only a matter of time dudes
What about the BSOD screensaver for X? ;-)
Perhaps its the MS _ BSOD he's on about
You can also get an environmentally friendly bamboo :-)
b am boo.htm
guitar to go with the bike.
http://www.giles.com/yamaha1/pressreleases/PAC/
Real name ;-)
Peter Richard Czerwinski
Sheffield England
It's the RIAAs job .. more specifically the Performing Rights Society or the .. to collect royalty payments on the behalf of their
... then ...
... if you want to be able to 'freely' share copyrighted data, expect
NPMA [www.npma.org]
members who own the copyright / mechanical copyright to material.
Legally, they are in the 'right' and the people violating copyright law
are in the 'wrong', this is a fact, it is true, deal with it.
OK. IMHO, what they're doing now is a bit heavy handed, but these are early
days in our new digital age. Ways and means are going to have to be thought
out to deal, sensibly, with such disputes. Knee jerk reactions serve no one.
A more sensible way perhaps, of collecting royalties would be to charge ISPs
a license to allow file sharing of copyrighted material to take place in
their dataspace. Similar to what they do now with respect to Radio Stations
and TV Networks. Royalty's on CDs are usually collected at the point of
manufacture (CD pressing plant) based on numbers pressed. So hassling stores
by returning CDs is pointless, the royalties been paid up front.
Royalty payments from radio stations are based on 'perceived' audience size.
A large broadcaster say Radio One (in the UK) would pay ~ £20/min in royalties.
So this is the sort of moolah we're talking about.
If this is the road that is chosen
ISPs will pass these licensing costs on to their customers (TANSTAAFL dudes)
bottom line
to pay more to get online.
(IANAL)
At least he's not hiding behind an AC tag sunshine.
Quote: what an arrogant idiot you are? UnQuote: QED.
Copyright (for the above quote) AC 2003.
SPAM is just a tin of processed meat of unknown origin.