There are some dumb judges out there, but I'd like to think most of them are level headed and honest.
And I sincerely hope that some of those judges decide the cases surrounding the SCO issue. Because they will see through patent lies and deception. I hope the judges see this action (criticizing trying to kill the GPL while profiting from it) as a sliming and unhonorable thing to do. And even though there is no law breaking in that action, I think this bit of information, along with others, will help the judges to realize who are legitimate and who are greedy assholes.
Any legitimate researcher can get stem cells with little or no effort. Thus, all the fuss is quite pointless.
There may be more strategy here than what it looks. As you say, you can get stem cells, and you are a legitimate researcher. Trying to heal children and trying to create mutants are two very different things. By already having the law on the books, the government can step in a and shut down an operation that is perversive to human kind, while giving dedicated, child healing doctors a blind eye.
You might consider using straight OpenGL to do it. Just keep track of your position and angle of sight with variables, and render your scene. I've designed buildings like that before. It is very similar to a 1st person shooter, but without the rocket launchers. (it would be cool to frag your house though).
Another very good option, used by a lot of architects, is ray tracing. You don't get live animations, but the still images are excellent - photo quality if you are good. There is a really good open source ray tracer called Pov-ray. I use it all the time. I've also used it to design a room.
Wait a second, we designed this OS to run the Desktop... you know, My Documents , My Music... that stuff. We had no idea you were going to be running applications on it!
Using voice stress analysis techniques to detect changes in speech patterns caused by stress, the machines will be able to make an initial assessment as to whether the caller may be lying.
A special series of questions has also been devised to try and catch out fraudsters.
And when was the accident?
Who was driving?
What's the capitol of Uzbekistan?
Pi to 15 digits?
Especially, when they will go through such efforts to screw you, that they spend more money on lawyers and tests, than they would if they just paid you!
It's your idea, you spearhead it. If you think we should start putting your idea into action, then you must lead by example before anyone will follow you. You won't get anything done by suggesting others do your work for you.
There are people who have ideas about this and want to act on them. I honestly don't have the time now. And some people do have time, and want ideas for projects. The following two posts show that there is some interest and feedback regarding this issue. example 1 example 2
I guess what I'm trying to say is, when I have more time, I wouldn't mind working on ideas I got from other people, so I don't see why I shouldn't give out ideas while I'm too busy to work on them.
Also, just mentioning the idea can give someone else a better idea... an improvement on the original.
From the article:
The 5,300-year-old "Iceman" discovered in 1991 in the Italian Alps was killed by one or more assailants in a fight that lasted at least two days
How do they know it lasted for two days? They must have found a recording or something.
I want to see all their new shareholders (due to them thinking the lawsuit was real and buying more) shit themselves when the price plummets:-)
That would serve them right. Stocks should be bought and sold based on company worth and profitability.
It is unnacceptable for people to try to cash in on the legal system. It's almost un-american. I would feel sorry for those stock holders (some are probably legitamate), but I will feel no remorse when those vultures get what is coming to them.
They're involved in huge legal battles with two (maybe more) computer superpowers. The entire user base that supports them hates them. And there's now a free version available of everything they sell.
I request that the next feature to develop is an option where you just wave or shake the miniCD at the computer to remedy any problems. This would alleviate the hassle of putting the miniCD into the tray and running it.
I am a big fan of easy to use diagnostics/repair utilities. This sounds very good, and with just this one final tweaking, I think it will be perfect.
And they also forgot one of the most important things, the mind. All this talk about replacing body parts and organs means very little, because the mind will eventually fail. And if you transplant the mind...
Anyway, delaying death is very different than slowing aging. If you are 80 years old and feel 30, great for you! But I doubt any 2057 year olds will feel 30. They will probably WANT to die at that point. I would.
But their bots are searching past literal terms, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten Pac-Man out of INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip. So even piecing together stuff that looks suspicous is enough.
Not to mention, actually printing or speaking a copywrighted term is ok depending on circumstances. I'll explain:
"My sister's boyfriend is terrible. See what a cold hearted snake he is by downloading this text file."
See what I mean? That's an 80's song, OR a common phrase. They can't prosecute on that.
"Yesterday's news had a story about a robber who got away from cops 7 times. He is such a smooth criminal that he was gone before the cops even..."
And the Bots' pattern matching is so lose, you wouldn't even have to write the actual title, just the filename Metallicalluminum would throw the red ight on these bots.
We can screw them over, because we're smarter, AND we USE that intelligence.
When spammers go really bad, a lot of us started generating fake email addresses so their bots would find them and get jammed up with crap.
I think its time the same thing happened with DMCA bots. If they are going to be snooping around everything, lets make A LOT of stuff for them to find! Imagine if all of us created web pages that appeared to hold copywrighted material, but don't. Even just a php or cgi page that generated links with *suspicious words* but nothing of interest. No actual person would use them, but the DMCA bots would see a jackpot. Then, when actual people followed up, they'd find absolutely nothing wrong. That would gum them up pretty badly.
No, I think this is different than most libraries. In general, commonly used libraries are already in the proper directory, ready to be used. But windowing toolkits aren't generally installed by default. Specifically, if you are compiling code that uses one of the more obscure windowing toolkits, you have very little chance of already having the proper libraries in place. In which case you will have to go hunt them down.
The one thing I don't like about toolkits (not mentioned in her list of cons) is that if you distribute the source code, whoever is compiling needs to have the toolkit.
I've tried to compile and install programs before and spent a lot of time trying to track down the toolkit libraries.
This is not a good reason to abondon using toolkits, but it is one negative aspect to take into consideration.
I just read someone else's post who said Win98 IS affected but not supported anymore, and that's why it didn't make the list. I have a Win98 box, and several of my friends and coworkers do too. So I'd really like to figure this out.
I had to patch several computers at work, and I noticed that the patch installer software says something at the beginning like, "Back up all your harddrives, we are not responsible if this program breaks your entire computer. Do you Accept?"
Well in the middle of a virus scare, nobody has time to back up every machine in the office. So that really doesn't make me feel comfortable. So far, so good though. No broken computers as of yet.
But another scary thought that crossed my mind while installing the patch... What if those smooth criminals had gotten into the microsoft servers and put a virus into that patch installer? That would be a killer!
If you need to use Windows, you might as well use win98.
I've never heard or seen exactly how they do it. I've wondered that before as well. I always assumed that they checked to see if you clicked another page on their search results page soon after clicking another. But even that wouldn't work unless they used some type of redirect to track the click(and we know they don't use javascript).
That is pretty cool... especially for news. I always hunt and pick through the newsfeeds for which stories I want to read, and it would be really nice to have a search engine help you out.
I like the idea of interactive page rankings. I don't think it should be the one decisive ranking alogrithm. But human interaction is just what search engines need.
I do a lot with Google, and it leaves some to be desired. The goal of Google is to make the ranking of pages partly out of the hands of webmasters, so they can't just trick the spiders. And that has worked very well for Google (serves over 70% of internet searches). But all page ranks are very cold and calculated. Maybe that cold, calculated rank is a good place to start, and then it's time for human reviewers to fine tune the list.
By the way, Google has attempted to acheive this concept of human ranking by watching to see how long you stay at a page you clicked on. If they rank a page 1, and you click it, and immediately return to the search page, they penalize that page. So if even Google is trying the same abstract concept, it probably has a future on the web.
Exactly how is this going to work? No more corner mail boxes? You now have to go to the post office and present an ID to mail a letter? Or you have to present an ID to get stamps encoded with a particular bar code? No more stamp machines, and it's illegal to loan a stamp to your neighbor?
You are exactly right with these points. I was more concerned with whether or not the idea of tracking mail was bad. It seems fine to me. But the implementation is worse, I admit. I don't mind if the government watches me, so long as it doesn't hinder me. But everything you just mentioned does cross the line.
If those changes all went into effect, I would start looking for a private mail carrier service to replace the USPS... or start me own.
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There are some dumb judges out there, but I'd like to think most of them are level headed and honest.
And I sincerely hope that some of those judges decide the cases surrounding the SCO issue. Because they will see through patent lies and deception. I hope the judges see this action (criticizing trying to kill the GPL while profiting from it) as a sliming and unhonorable thing to do. And even though there is no law breaking in that action, I think this bit of information, along with others, will help the judges to realize who are legitimate and who are greedy assholes.
That's all I have to say about that.
Any legitimate researcher can get stem cells with little or no effort. Thus, all the fuss is quite pointless.
There may be more strategy here than what it looks. As you say, you can get stem cells, and you are a legitimate researcher. Trying to heal children and trying to create mutants are two very different things. By already having the law on the books, the government can step in a and shut down an operation that is perversive to human kind, while giving dedicated, child healing doctors a blind eye.
That's my hunch, take it for what its worth.
You might consider using straight OpenGL to do it. Just keep track of your position and angle of sight with variables, and render your scene. I've designed buildings like that before. It is very similar to a 1st person shooter, but without the rocket launchers. (it would be cool to frag your house though).
Another very good option, used by a lot of architects, is ray tracing. You don't get live animations, but the still images are excellent - photo quality if you are good. There is a really good open source ray tracer called Pov-ray. I use it all the time. I've also used it to design a room.
Wait a second, we designed this OS to run the Desktop... you know, My Documents , My Music... that stuff. We had no idea you were going to be running applications on it!
This calls for a whole new design phase.
Using voice stress analysis techniques to detect changes in speech patterns caused by stress, the machines will be able to make an initial assessment as to whether the caller may be lying.
A special series of questions has also been devised to try and catch out fraudsters.
And when was the accident?
Who was driving?
What's the capitol of Uzbekistan?
Pi to 15 digits?
I'm sorry sir, your claim has been denied.
I really hate insurance companies.
Especially, when they will go through such efforts to screw you, that they spend more money on lawyers and tests, than they would if they just paid you!
Bastards.
It's your idea, you spearhead it. If you think we should start putting your idea into action, then you must lead by example before anyone will follow you. You won't get anything done by suggesting others do your work for you.
There are people who have ideas about this and want to act on them. I honestly don't have the time now. And some people do have time, and want ideas for projects. The following two posts show that there is some interest and feedback regarding this issue.
example 1
example 2
I guess what I'm trying to say is, when I have more time, I wouldn't mind working on ideas I got from other people, so I don't see why I shouldn't give out ideas while I'm too busy to work on them.
Also, just mentioning the idea can give someone else a better idea... an improvement on the original.
So I don't see any harm.
From the article: The 5,300-year-old "Iceman" discovered in 1991 in the Italian Alps was killed by one or more assailants in a fight that lasted at least two days
How do they know it lasted for two days? They must have found a recording or something.
I want to see all their new shareholders (due to them thinking the lawsuit was real and buying more) shit themselves when the price plummets :-)
That would serve them right. Stocks should be bought and sold based on company worth and profitability.
It is unnacceptable for people to try to cash in on the legal system. It's almost un-american. I would feel sorry for those stock holders (some are probably legitamate), but I will feel no remorse when those vultures get what is coming to them.
They're involved in huge legal battles with two (maybe more) computer superpowers. The entire user base that supports them hates them. And there's now a free version available of everything they sell.
I wonder why they're selling their stock?
...All on 1 miniCD. That sounds very convenient.
I request that the next feature to develop is an option where you just wave or shake the miniCD at the computer to remedy any problems. This would alleviate the hassle of putting the miniCD into the tray and running it.
I am a big fan of easy to use diagnostics/repair utilities. This sounds very good, and with just this one final tweaking, I think it will be perfect.
Right on.
And they also forgot one of the most important things, the mind. All this talk about replacing body parts and organs means very little, because the mind will eventually fail. And if you transplant the mind...
Anyway, delaying death is very different than slowing aging. If you are 80 years old and feel 30, great for you! But I doubt any 2057 year olds will feel 30. They will probably WANT to die at that point. I would.
Consider dogs. DNA tests show that all modern dogs evolved from wolves and were initially bred by cavemen who knew nothing about the genome.
That must be a really really good DNA test to prove all that.
Heh heh, that's perfect.
Then you could even name the file dont-download-pacman.zip and get away with it!
But their bots are searching past literal terms, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten Pac-Man out of INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip. So even piecing together stuff that looks suspicous is enough.
Not to mention, actually printing or speaking a copywrighted term is ok depending on circumstances. I'll explain:
"My sister's boyfriend is terrible. See what a cold hearted snake he is by downloading this text file."
See what I mean? That's an 80's song, OR a common phrase. They can't prosecute on that.
"Yesterday's news had a story about a robber who got away from cops 7 times. He is such a smooth criminal that he was gone before the cops even..."
And the Bots' pattern matching is so lose, you wouldn't even have to write the actual title, just the filename Metallicalluminum would throw the red ight on these bots.
We can screw them over, because we're smarter, AND we USE that intelligence.
When spammers go really bad, a lot of us started generating fake email addresses so their bots would find them and get jammed up with crap.
I think its time the same thing happened with DMCA bots. If they are going to be snooping around everything, lets make A LOT of stuff for them to find! Imagine if all of us created web pages that appeared to hold copywrighted material, but don't. Even just a php or cgi page that generated links with *suspicious words* but nothing of interest. No actual person would use them, but the DMCA bots would see a jackpot. Then, when actual people followed up, they'd find absolutely nothing wrong. That would gum them up pretty badly.
So who wants to spearhead this?
No, I think this is different than most libraries. In general, commonly used libraries are already in the proper directory, ready to be used. But windowing toolkits aren't generally installed by default. Specifically, if you are compiling code that uses one of the more obscure windowing toolkits, you have very little chance of already having the proper libraries in place. In which case you will have to go hunt them down.
The one thing I don't like about toolkits (not mentioned in her list of cons) is that if you distribute the source code, whoever is compiling needs to have the toolkit.
I've tried to compile and install programs before and spent a lot of time trying to track down the toolkit libraries.
This is not a good reason to abondon using toolkits, but it is one negative aspect to take into consideration.
win98 and earlier don't use the RPC 'feature'.
I just read someone else's post who said Win98 IS affected but not supported anymore, and that's why it didn't make the list. I have a Win98 box, and several of my friends and coworkers do too. So I'd really like to figure this out.
Is Win98 vulnerable or not?
I had to patch several computers at work, and I noticed that the patch installer software says something at the beginning like,
"Back up all your harddrives, we are not responsible if this program breaks your entire computer. Do you Accept?"
Well in the middle of a virus scare, nobody has time to back up every machine in the office. So that really doesn't make me feel comfortable. So far, so good though. No broken computers as of yet.
But another scary thought that crossed my mind while installing the patch... What if those smooth criminals had gotten into the microsoft servers and put a virus into that patch installer? That would be a killer!
If you need to use Windows, you might as well use win98.
I just checked the source code on Google.com and they DO have javascript on their main page. So I eat my words from that last post.
If I get time I'll look through all of it and see what it does.
I've never heard or seen exactly how they do it. I've wondered that before as well. I always assumed that they checked to see if you clicked another page on their search results page soon after clicking another. But even that wouldn't work unless they used some type of redirect to track the click(and we know they don't use javascript).
That is pretty cool... especially for news. I always hunt and pick through the newsfeeds for which stories I want to read, and it would be really nice to have a search engine help you out.
I like the idea of interactive page rankings. I don't think it should be the one decisive ranking alogrithm. But human interaction is just what search engines need.
I do a lot with Google, and it leaves some to be desired. The goal of Google is to make the ranking of pages partly out of the hands of webmasters, so they can't just trick the spiders. And that has worked very well for Google (serves over 70% of internet searches). But all page ranks are very cold and calculated. Maybe that cold, calculated rank is a good place to start, and then it's time for human reviewers to fine tune the list.
By the way, Google has attempted to acheive this concept of human ranking by watching to see how long you stay at a page you clicked on. If they rank a page 1, and you click it, and immediately return to the search page, they penalize that page. So if even Google is trying the same abstract concept, it probably has a future on the web.
Exactly how is this going to work? No more corner mail boxes? You now have to go to the post office and present an ID to mail a letter? Or you have to present an ID to get stamps encoded with a particular bar code? No more stamp machines, and it's illegal to loan a stamp to your neighbor?
... or start me own.
You are exactly right with these points. I was more concerned with whether or not the idea of tracking mail was bad. It seems fine to me. But the implementation is worse, I admit. I don't mind if the government watches me, so long as it doesn't hinder me. But everything you just mentioned does cross the line.
If those changes all went into effect, I would start looking for a private mail carrier service to replace the USPS