Two points.
1) Caffeine reduced blood sugar levels. Onset of Type II diabetes is related to high blood sugar levels. That caffeine has an effect on diabetes is surprising how?
2) Wasn't there a study a few years back that claimed the exact opposite, that combining caffeine and sugar was bad for you (TM) and lead to diabetes. What happened to that research?
Assets transfered just before bankruptcy can be reclaimed by the courts to pay debts.
Yes, however there are ways around this. Ianal, however, I believe that in the case of bankrupy, bond holds are always paid first, hence why I think that the Unix source code may have been put up as collateral for a bond.
The greatest danger where I live is that after playing GTA, I'll start driving on the wrong side of the road. I have found myself eyeing up some parked vehicles.
Strangely enough, I can't go out and buy a sniper rifle or AK47 whre I live. Even the gangs don't have them.
The GTA games have always been a parody of American culture, and GTA3/VC does it so well by exagerating almost every aspect of daily life in the US, from the fake ads on the radio to the ultra heavily armed gangs, to being able to pick up rocket launchers off the street. Its no surprise that satire this good was actually created outside of the US. Rockstar North is located in Edinburgh, Scotland (you can find lots of references to this in VC)
Note, they do have assets, but it seems as if they only keep enough assets on hand to pay the lawyers they employ, notice how they have no long term contracts...
SCO does have one asset, the Unix source code, and the rights to it. Want to bet that these are being used as collateral on bonds held by the Canapy group, and they will be transfered just before SCO is declared bankrupt. The code and rights will then be sold to someone else who thinks they can use then to make money from Linux by suing people, and the who cycle will start over again. Or worse, it could be sold to Microsoft.
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In Canada, at least one bank does this (CIBC). I was using a machine one time, and glanced over at the other machine, and realised it was giving messages in french while mine was using english. Apparently, the desired language is encoded on the cards. To bad none of the other banks do this as I routinely get asked by other Atms what language I would like to use. (English, French, even Chinese in a few places)
Why can't console makers start making their high profile games for the PC? #snip# I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting.
This is exactly the reason why these games are console only. There are too many varaitions between PC hardware for the developers to handle. The cost of testing a cutting edge game on all the combinations of hardware that it could be expected to run on was getting far too expensive. I recall a comment made by a manager at a large game developer (Activision iirc) saying that the profit margins in PC game development were so slim that a single call to tech support would wipe out the profit for that unit. I havn't even mentioned losses due to piracy either. Compare this with the mass market console with built in drm. Millions of (nearly) identical units with identical specs. Now which one would you like to develop for.
I use to be a PC gamer myself a few years back, then I saw the writing on the wall, and bought myself a console
Read the article guys.
Sony is going to start TRIAL runs on the production line in March. Last I heard, they were still aiming for a late 2005 or early 2006 launch date. This gives them lots of time to work the gremlims out of the system.
Where are you getting your numbers from? Last time I checked, only about 1 in 5 people in the US had a University degree. I do know that about half the lawyers in the world are in the US though. This was one of the things that I disagreed with when I read Rifkins
The end of Work
. Rifkin contended that large ammount of people would not be able to move into the knowledge industries, however, now about 1 in 5 people in the western world have University degrees, up significantly from a 15 years ago. Too bad a lot of these people are involved in intellectual make work projects and not contributing to the advancement of the Human condidtion.
Why am I starting to agree with Shakespear's advice on what to do with Lawyers?
America is, after all, the only society that does not define its citizens substantially in ethnic terms.
He is partially right in that Americans don't define themselves in the same way that other nationalities do, but I would define it more along the lines of identifying ones self with the american meme, sort of a made up ethnicity. Other nationalities use a wide range of ways to identify their national characteristics, such as "we are the people that live here", and or "the people that speak XXX", and sometime (but not always) "belonging to this ethnic group"
The author is right though that no one else identifies themselves in the"American" way. The closest anyone else comes to using this type of identification are the Canadians, who usually refer to themselves as the "people who live in the northern part of the american continent who are not "American."
The 'free puppy' allegory is correct, to a point, but breaks down when you consider how software is different then material object.
Yes, you still have to pay maintenance when you recieve a free puppy, but its roughly the same as if you bought it. The difference between puppies and software is that you can make unlimited copies of software. When considering open source, this is not a problem, but commercial venders would like you to think of there software as puppies, in that you should buy each one seperately. Even the maintenance analagy does nto work correctly, as the open source puppy would come with instructions, and if it ever got sick you could take it to any vet. The closed source puppy, you would have to take to a specific vet of the previous owners choosing.
Wow, I can't believe I'm the first to make this joke..... today.
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So anyone who still think the movie Armageddon is based on scientific facts.
Your kidding right. Armageddon is possibly the worst SF movie in recient years in respect for the correct protrayal of science. Normally I go to see big budget SF movies and privatly chuckle everytime a scientific law gets broken. Most movies I rate in "minutes between screwups", however in Armageddon, it was how many screwup were there per second. My favourate one is when they doc with Mir, start it rotating to create artificial gravity, and then walk up the docking tubes.:-[ If they got this wrong, then don't expect the Hollywood producers to be able to calculate the damage from a two body collision correctly.
The Ghost in the Shell 2 manga goes into this in more detail. One of plot points is that a xenotransplant facility where pigs are grown as replacemnet organs (for humans), is hacked into, and the pigs brains are modified (to almost human inteligence) and then clustered together to make a new supercomputer.
The system under development will allow a computer network to check the safety of incoming traffic. Any device trying to connect to the network will be checked to see whether it has security measures already in place.
The way I read this is that it only checks computers trying to connect to the hub/router (on a LAN) but what does it do to traffic that is already on the network? Does it assume that the other router has aready cleared it? or does it block all non-authenticated traffic? In either case, it is useless outside of a homogenous environement (Like a corperate Intranet) If Cisco thinks everyone on the Internet will suddenly replace all their routers with Cisco stuff, they are mistaken. Also, what is the authentication method? If it isn't heavy duty crypto, then it can be broken and spoofed far to easily. If it is using strong Encryption, then US law prevents its export. Mind you, there are people who would love to see a US controlled internet, even if it cuts off the rest of the world. What these people don't understand is the the Internet is too important, so that attempts to control it will be circuvented.
I find it peculiar that the GPL is practically the exact _opposite_ of what McBride seems to think it is.
What, you mean the GPL isn't a way for greedy industrialists... er good corperate citizen to make money without any effort on their own part.;-)
The scarry thing is that iirc (IANAL) there are provisions for a judge to overturn contracts that are not in the public interest. Now, in the US, public intrest is defined by whoever influences the judge the most, not how many are actually positivly or negativly affected.
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Umm, SCOs claim does not involve specific code, but a bizzare interpretation of intelectual property laws, where SCO thinks that because they have a contract with IBM not to put propriatory UNIX code into other product, then any code added to UNIX belongs to SCO, and by extension anything that has a version of this code in it (Linux) also belongs to SCO, even if a totally seperate version of the code, and even if it was added to Linux before added to Unix. Needless to say, this position has any standing in the legal system of any country, but the American legal system will hum and haw over it for long enough for SCO execs to pump and dump their stock. Remember Darl needs four profitable quarters before he can sell his stock.
I don't want to be smoking what SCO is on because they are so far out of touch with reality, I don't think they are coming back.
Except in one point in the opening credits.
The camera zooms in on one of the matrix letters falling down the screen, it keeps zooming in, and zooming in and lo and behold appears a fractal, and it zooms into the fractal even more, and eventually more matrix letters appear inside the fractal. I felt this was implying a matrix-inside-a-matrix.
This inner level inside the matrix alphanumerics was orange, the same colour and style that Neo sees things in when he is 'blind' in the 'real' world.
I don't know if this implies a matrix-inside-a-matrix but it does clearly imply another level beyond the 'real' world. Considering the religious and philosohical influences of the matrix films, I dont think anyone was surprissed by this.
I have Linux and Windowz installed. Do I get money everytime I use boot-up? What if I have multiple versions of the kernel on the same box?
Cha-ching... or is it Bling Bling now?
They are. Bell Canada's ISP Sympatico has threatened to do the same, and just this morning, I got an emil from them saying "Although your computer does not appear to have a virus on it, please buy our virus scanner".
And to think, the last time my computer caught a virus, it was after their helpdesk staff advised me to turn off my firewall when connecting to the net.
Wow, Novell is clawing its way back into relevance.
Whats next? Will they find addition documentation that they did not sell SCO the rights to the Unix V codebase?;-)
Yes, the sample does look very Perlish. I wonder if they took tips from ActiveState. I heard that Microsoft encouraged ActiveState to port perl to DOS so that they would have a proper scripting language (A long time ago, I dont know if it is true or not.) On that note, does anyone know how that project to create a perl shell is going?
SCO believes their 'licence' to the 'technology' in Unix will override this. This argument is even more bizzare then the GPL is invalid one, but I will try to spell it out. SCO believes the clause in the contract that SCO has with IBM et all about not distributing dervived works gives them the right to control the distribution of anything added to Unix (Technology) in any way or form. SCO believes that this obligation passes beyond the signitaries of the original contract in a viral manner. Now IINAL but I don't think contract law works this way, and I doubt it overrides copyright law. Also, SCO appears to be trying to use a statue of limitations to prevent people from suing them.
Now, I find this all very strange, and I cannot see SCO winning this case, which makes me think that the whole thing is a pump and dump scheme, so watch out for the next stage, which will result in some fancy footwork by even more lawers in keeping SCO execs out of jail.
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Two points.
1) Caffeine reduced blood sugar levels. Onset of Type II diabetes is related to high blood sugar levels. That caffeine has an effect on diabetes is surprising how?
2) Wasn't there a study a few years back that claimed the exact opposite, that combining caffeine and sugar was bad for you (TM) and lead to diabetes. What happened to that research?
Assets transfered just before bankruptcy can be reclaimed by the courts to pay debts.
Yes, however there are ways around this. Ianal, however, I believe that in the case of bankrupy, bond holds are always paid first, hence why I think that the Unix source code may have been put up as collateral for a bond.
Strangely enough, I can't go out and buy a sniper rifle or AK47 whre I live. Even the gangs don't have them.
The GTA games have always been a parody of American culture, and GTA3/VC does it so well by exagerating almost every aspect of daily life in the US, from the fake ads on the radio to the ultra heavily armed gangs, to being able to pick up rocket launchers off the street. Its no surprise that satire this good was actually created outside of the US. Rockstar North is located in Edinburgh, Scotland (you can find lots of references to this in VC)
Note, they do have assets, but it seems as if they only keep enough assets on hand to pay the lawyers they employ, notice how they have no long term contracts...
SCO does have one asset, the Unix source code, and the rights to it. Want to bet that these are being used as collateral on bonds held by the Canapy group, and they will be transfered just before SCO is declared bankrupt. The code and rights will then be sold to someone else who thinks they can use then to make money from Linux by suing people, and the who cycle will start over again. Or worse, it could be sold to Microsoft.
In Canada, at least one bank does this (CIBC). I was using a machine one time, and glanced over at the other machine, and realised it was giving messages in french while mine was using english. Apparently, the desired language is encoded on the cards. To bad none of the other banks do this as I routinely get asked by other Atms what language I would like to use. (English, French, even Chinese in a few places)
Why can't console makers start making their high profile games for the PC? #snip# I'd never buy a game console. They're too limiting.
This is exactly the reason why these games are console only. There are too many varaitions between PC hardware for the developers to handle. The cost of testing a cutting edge game on all the combinations of hardware that it could be expected to run on was getting far too expensive. I recall a comment made by a manager at a large game developer (Activision iirc) saying that the profit margins in PC game development were so slim that a single call to tech support would wipe out the profit for that unit. I havn't even mentioned losses due to piracy either. Compare this with the mass market console with built in drm. Millions of (nearly) identical units with identical specs. Now which one would you like to develop for.
I use to be a PC gamer myself a few years back, then I saw the writing on the wall, and bought myself a console
Read the article guys.
Sony is going to start TRIAL runs on the production line in March. Last I heard, they were still aiming for a late 2005 or early 2006 launch date. This gives them lots of time to work the gremlims out of the system.
- The end of Work
. Rifkin contended that large ammount of people would not be able to move into the knowledge industries, however, now about 1 in 5 people in the western world have University degrees, up significantly from a 15 years ago. Too bad a lot of these people are involved in intellectual make work projects and not contributing to the advancement of the Human condidtion.Why am I starting to agree with Shakespear's advice on what to do with Lawyers?
America is, after all, the only society that does not define its citizens substantially in ethnic terms.
He is partially right in that Americans don't define themselves in the same way that other nationalities do, but I would define it more along the lines of identifying ones self with the american meme, sort of a made up ethnicity. Other nationalities use a wide range of ways to identify their national characteristics, such as "we are the people that live here", and or "the people that speak XXX", and sometime (but not always) "belonging to this ethnic group"
The author is right though that no one else identifies themselves in the"American" way. The closest anyone else comes to using this type of identification are the Canadians, who usually refer to themselves as the "people who live in the northern part of the american continent who are not "American."
The 'free puppy' allegory is correct, to a point, but breaks down when you consider how software is different then material object.
Yes, you still have to pay maintenance when you recieve a free puppy, but its roughly the same as if you bought it. The difference between puppies and software is that you can make unlimited copies of software. When considering open source, this is not a problem, but commercial venders would like you to think of there software as puppies, in that you should buy each one seperately. Even the maintenance analagy does nto work correctly, as the open source puppy would come with instructions, and if it ever got sick you could take it to any vet. The closed source puppy, you would have to take to a specific vet of the previous owners choosing.
Wow, I can't believe I'm the first to make this joke ..... today.
So anyone who still think the movie Armageddon is based on scientific facts. :-[ If they got this wrong, then don't expect the Hollywood producers to be able to calculate the damage from a two body collision correctly.
Your kidding right. Armageddon is possibly the worst SF movie in recient years in respect for the correct protrayal of science. Normally I go to see big budget SF movies and privatly chuckle everytime a scientific law gets broken. Most movies I rate in "minutes between screwups", however in Armageddon, it was how many screwup were there per second. My favourate one is when they doc with Mir, start it rotating to create artificial gravity, and then walk up the docking tubes.
I can see the tabloid headlines now.
I caught stomach flu from my computer, and I puked up this neat mini TV!
The Ghost in the Shell 2 manga goes into this in more detail. One of plot points is that a xenotransplant facility where pigs are grown as replacemnet organs (for humans), is hacked into, and the pigs brains are modified (to almost human inteligence) and then clustered together to make a new supercomputer.
Somebody paid how much for this? They could have gotten the same advice on Slashdot for free.
The system under development will allow a computer network to check the safety of incoming traffic. Any device trying to connect to the network will be checked to see whether it has security measures already in place.
The way I read this is that it only checks computers trying to connect to the hub/router (on a LAN) but what does it do to traffic that is already on the network? Does it assume that the other router has aready cleared it? or does it block all non-authenticated traffic? In either case, it is useless outside of a homogenous environement (Like a corperate Intranet) If Cisco thinks everyone on the Internet will suddenly replace all their routers with Cisco stuff, they are mistaken. Also, what is the authentication method? If it isn't heavy duty crypto, then it can be broken and spoofed far to easily. If it is using strong Encryption, then US law prevents its export. Mind you, there are people who would love to see a US controlled internet, even if it cuts off the rest of the world. What these people don't understand is the the Internet is too important, so that attempts to control it will be circuvented.
What, you mean the GPL isn't a way for greedy industrialists... er good corperate citizen to make money without any effort on their own part.
The scarry thing is that iirc (IANAL) there are provisions for a judge to overturn contracts that are not in the public interest. Now, in the US, public intrest is defined by whoever influences the judge the most, not how many are actually positivly or negativly affected.
I don't want to be smoking what SCO is on because they are so far out of touch with reality, I don't think they are coming back.
I was kinda hoping they would call it the "Why Box" for the same reason.
Except in one point in the opening credits.
The camera zooms in on one of the matrix letters falling down the screen, it keeps zooming in, and zooming in and lo and behold appears a fractal, and it zooms into the fractal even more, and eventually more matrix letters appear inside the fractal. I felt this was implying a matrix-inside-a-matrix.
This inner level inside the matrix alphanumerics was orange, the same colour and style that Neo sees things in when he is 'blind' in the 'real' world.
I don't know if this implies a matrix-inside-a-matrix but it does clearly imply another level beyond the 'real' world. Considering the religious and philosohical influences of the matrix films, I dont think anyone was surprissed by this.
I have Linux and Windowz installed. Do I get money everytime I use boot-up? What if I have multiple versions of the kernel on the same box?
Cha-ching... or is it Bling Bling now?
They are. Bell Canada's ISP Sympatico has threatened to do the same, and just this morning, I got an emil from them saying "Although your computer does not appear to have a virus on it, please buy our virus scanner".
And to think, the last time my computer caught a virus, it was after their helpdesk staff advised me to turn off my firewall when connecting to the net.
Wow, Novell is clawing its way back into relevance. Whats next? Will they find addition documentation that they did not sell SCO the rights to the Unix V codebase? ;-)
Yes, the sample does look very Perlish. I wonder if they took tips from ActiveState.
I heard that Microsoft encouraged ActiveState to port perl to DOS so that they would have a proper scripting language (A long time ago, I dont know if it is true or not.)
On that note, does anyone know how that project to create a perl shell is going?
SCO believes their 'licence' to the 'technology' in Unix will override this. This argument is even more bizzare then the GPL is invalid one, but I will try to spell it out. SCO believes the clause in the contract that SCO has with IBM et all about not distributing dervived works gives them the right to control the distribution of anything added to Unix (Technology) in any way or form. SCO believes that this obligation passes beyond the signitaries of the original contract in a viral manner. Now IINAL but I don't think contract law works this way, and I doubt it overrides copyright law. Also, SCO appears to be trying to use a statue of limitations to prevent people from suing them.
Now, I find this all very strange, and I cannot see SCO winning this case, which makes me think that the whole thing is a pump and dump scheme, so watch out for the next stage, which will result in some fancy footwork by even more lawers in keeping SCO execs out of jail.