... and Al Petrovsky is considered a troll on Groklaw.
Lawywers always ask for fees, if they think they are going to win or not. It has little to do with the strength of their case.
Daimler is not the most aggressive of the SCO Group defendants. They are the ones for whom The SCO Group's case was obviously the weakest on its face, allowing the judge to rule quickly and without waiting for the others.
Petrovsky's "analysis" is weak and off-base, as usual.
Wasn't the resolution to this disconnect the "Projects" [...]
No, that's a symptom of a tangential problem: give people something, and they don't value it. Easy come, easy go.
The Aussie A-frame fills a niche like the mobile home: a cheap place to buy. Trailer parks are seedy and crimeful too, but nothing like Cabrini Green was.
I'm not a homeless advocate. I probably should have more sensitivity to the needs of my fellow sojourner and all, but I've got a full plate already, what with Slashdot and, uh, well, I guess that's about all I do.
There always seems to be a disconnect between what people really need (a roof, a door to lock, three hots and a cot) and what society insists they need (a three-bedroom ranch with vinyl siding and brick trim).
If it were available, I'd live in a little A-frame like that. Shower at the gym, do deskwork at the library. Gotta have a place for my generator and a closet for my aunt, but other than that I'd be set.
What's wrong with POT?
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That's Plain Old Text. Project Gutenberg, as most surface dwellers know, collects free electronic texts and distributes them as ASCII. They have over 13,000 e-books.
I know, I know, you can't make money putting things in ASCII. My real point is to encourage consumption of Free stuff.
This reminds me of a guy wanting to attract grants. Except for the... no, I will take the high road.
There is SO much that goes wrong with the human body as it ages. He predicts in effect that in the next 10 years we'll simultaneously find cures for two maladies that appear to be universal: Alzheimers and cancer.
The statistics on prostate cancer for men and breast cancer for women are such that if you live long enough, you are assured of getting them. The only variable is age of onset.
The same is true for Alzheimer's. Live long enough, and you'll get it.
I'm sure there were those who wished to keep the printing press in the hands of those who would be responsible with it, too.
Everything has risks. The George Tenets of the world want to keep us safe by banning guns, keep us smart by banning books, and keep us rich by locking down our borders. The point is not whether any of those things accomplish their stated goals; the point is what we lose by trying to enact them.
In this case, the "border" is the net connection; lock it down and we lose a freedom as precious as that of standing on the corner waving a sign, or of worshipping orange rocks if we want.
The Internet is the future, in which self-organizing communities will engage in electronic commerce, inform themselves on any topic they wish to any level of detail they wish, and at times wage brutal wars against one another. As ugly as the dangers are, they are inseparable from the beauty and freedom that spring from the same source.
In the 23 years since I.B.M. lent its prowess in mainframe computers to the production of desktop machines, it has been widely criticized for having destined the machines to commodity status by giving Microsoft and Intel the rights to those essential standards.
Widely criticized? No, it's been widely noted that IBM's decision not to keep a tight grip on the architecture and the OS led to the adoption of standard technology, which in turn got us where we are.
It's a hypothetical exercise to ask whether they should have written their own OS and designed their own chips.
It's sort of a retroactive attempt to kill the goose laying the golden industry. Sure, they could have done it, but no, it wouldn't have helped them, and certainly not us.
I think they aren't quite sure who they're suing, so they make it "John Doe" at such and such address, DBA so and so. Spammers are a slippery lot.
Notice they're only suing pornographers. As if that's the only annoying spam.
I get spammed regularly to sign up for Microsoft's certification classes. I know that because it goes in my 'caughtspam' folder, whereupon I delete it.
Obviously, you're not a doctor. All real doctors know that you're not senile if you forget where your car is; you're senile if you can find the keys to the sofa.
Absolutely. With so much spam and repetitive information on Usenet, I've always limited my searches by date.
And linking to a single post is the whole point. I know it costs money to keep that stuff online, but surely they could find a way to put ads on deeplinked posts.
My wife works in a nursing home. It's her job to fill the old folks' day with interesting activities. She has to make sure that each one of them gets interaction that's not related to their health maintenance. They have an elaborate system for tracking and monitoring the amount and type of interaction each resident gets.
"Senility" is a blanket term covering all kinds of maladies, including Alzheimer's, the effects of stroke, and atrophy of various kinds. Most people in geriatrics agree that to stave off senility you should use the same tactics you use to stay healthy now. Eat sensibly, get plenty of exercise (including the horizontal variety if you can get it!), and engage in mentally challenging activities.
The mentally challenging activities that are best at delaying senility are things you've never done before. If you've never played music, try learning to play an instrument. Learn another language, especially sign language. If you have an elderly relative, get them hooked on email. It won't take long, since they're usually starved for communication.
A talking robot is fine, but old people really need young people.
I have a BS CS degree from the University of Illinois (UIUC). That qualifies me to wash dishes using several layers of abstraction:-). The most important things are:
Experience, as everyone says, but what they really mean is your list of skills and ability to apply them.
Your first job out of college sets the direction for your career. Which job you take is more important than what your degree is. Where you work is more important than where you went to school.
Communications skills can either make or break you. They don't matter if your other skills are just right and you are the only one like you around. But your skills are never just right and there are usually lots of people like you around. What does "communication skills" mean?
The ability to speak and write in language that is pleasing to your target audience and appropriate for the setting. In other words, speak geek or PHB-ese as needed.
The ability to use the technology (email, phones, presentation software, etc.) effectively
The ability to sell. Everybody sells. This means being able to think on your feet and come up with effective arguments for your position, whether that's "buy our stuff!" or pitching your plan to the boss. Slashdot is the perfect training ground, except you're probably sitting.
The ability to speak and make a presentation to a group
Always have an escape route. When someone quits or gets fired, send them a note or give them a call. You never know where they'll be when you get canned. When you get a job, casually tell all your old contacts.
If you get canned, tell everyone immediately. Resist the urge to hide it. It will get easier as you refuse to be embarassed by not having a gig.
Never, ever, (ever!) lie on your resume. At best it will get you a job for which you aren't ready, and at worst it can ruin your career and land you in jail.
Of course not, the point is that its nearly impossible for the software to be able to do this.
I started to write that, but stopped short when I realized that I didn't know how it was implemented. There *could* be a database keyed to some unique ID, with title, composer, copyright holder, release date, length, and other management information. Then that song could be blocked.
It doesn't do anything for the actual content of the song, since as you say you can alter the song in any number of ways to hide what it really is. But it won't correspond to the management information, and if that's the only way a song can be requested then the system could work.
But then you still get back to maintaining the antivirus-like database of songs. It's a money loser if it's even possible.
O'course, in 1989 I said only geeks would ever use the Internet.
the court heard evidence that Kazaa's software already had the ability to block copyrighted tracks built in, despite Sharman's protestations to the contrary.
First, almost everything is copyrighted. We need new terminology, but for now saying "commercial" is better than saying "copyrighted" to describe works for which the author wants payment to allow copying of it.
Second, that the software can do it is not the whole point. There is a business infrastructure that would have to be built around the blocking feature, since someone (or a throng of someones) would have to maintain that information. The feature is worthless without maintenance. I don't think it would work even with a crew maintaining the information ala an antivirus company.
Kazaa argues that their product is just a machine like a copier, a VCR, or a knife. It only does what its user has it do. The other side says they are more like Kinko's or a publisher, with a legal responsibility to monitor what they copy.
It's obvious to me that Kazaa is just a machine, but you never know what will happen in a court room.
Be careful you don't get stuck there for 20, or find yourself on the sidewalk when the industry passes you by. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.
The same 'job' and the same 'career' are not the same thing.
Just thought I'd add some long-term angst to your day.
Slashdot Mirror
It's kind of like those bacteria and tube worms thriving on the ocean floor in sulfuric acid at 300C. Drop their temperature below 150C, and they die.
*If* there were anything living on Mars in the first place, it would die long before we ever knew it got here.
But hey, anything to keep us safe from the Martian threat. Somebody's been watching too many bad scifi movies.
... and Al Petrovsky is considered a troll on Groklaw.
Lawywers always ask for fees, if they think they are going to win or not. It has little to do with the strength of their case.
Daimler is not the most aggressive of the SCO Group defendants. They are the ones for whom The SCO Group's case was obviously the weakest on its face, allowing the judge to rule quickly and without waiting for the others.
Petrovsky's "analysis" is weak and off-base, as usual.
OK, you're right: have to carry a Treo, a real phone, and a real PDA.
Man, it's getting tough - maybe someone should make a phone that's a PDA, too?
Oops, until December 10 they're backordered
I guess it's back to carrying a Treo and a real phone.
(I know you can buy a nice third-party headset for cell phones. It's just a joke.)
I own a 3-BR house. No brick trim, though :-).
I'd go for an RV or a big boat.
No, that's a symptom of a tangential problem: give people something, and they don't value it. Easy come, easy go.
The Aussie A-frame fills a niche like the mobile home: a cheap place to buy. Trailer parks are seedy and crimeful too, but nothing like Cabrini Green was.
I'm not a homeless advocate. I probably should have more sensitivity to the needs of my fellow sojourner and all, but I've got a full plate already, what with Slashdot and, uh, well, I guess that's about all I do.
There always seems to be a disconnect between what people really need (a roof, a door to lock, three hots and a cot) and what society insists they need (a three-bedroom ranch with vinyl siding and brick trim).
If it were available, I'd live in a little A-frame like that. Shower at the gym, do deskwork at the library. Gotta have a place for my generator and a closet for my aunt, but other than that I'd be set.
I know, I know, you can't make money putting things in ASCII. My real point is to encourage consumption of Free stuff.
Subtle, huh.
Yeah, right.
... no, I will take the high road.
This reminds me of a guy wanting to attract grants. Except for the
There is SO much that goes wrong with the human body as it ages. He predicts in effect that in the next 10 years we'll simultaneously find cures for two maladies that appear to be universal: Alzheimers and cancer.
The statistics on prostate cancer for men and breast cancer for women are such that if you live long enough, you are assured of getting them. The only variable is age of onset.
The same is true for Alzheimer's. Live long enough, and you'll get it.
1000 years? Let's try 130 first.
He wants the genie back in the bottle.
I'm sure there were those who wished to keep the printing press in the hands of those who would be responsible with it, too.
Everything has risks. The George Tenets of the world want to keep us safe by banning guns, keep us smart by banning books, and keep us rich by locking down our borders. The point is not whether any of those things accomplish their stated goals; the point is what we lose by trying to enact them.
In this case, the "border" is the net connection; lock it down and we lose a freedom as precious as that of standing on the corner waving a sign, or of worshipping orange rocks if we want.
The Internet is the future, in which self-organizing communities will engage in electronic commerce, inform themselves on any topic they wish to any level of detail they wish, and at times wage brutal wars against one another. As ugly as the dangers are, they are inseparable from the beauty and freedom that spring from the same source.
Us.
Widely criticized? No, it's been widely noted that IBM's decision not to keep a tight grip on the architecture and the OS led to the adoption of standard technology, which in turn got us where we are.
It's a hypothetical exercise to ask whether they should have written their own OS and designed their own chips. It's sort of a retroactive attempt to kill the goose laying the golden industry. Sure, they could have done it, but no, it wouldn't have helped them, and certainly not us.
I think they aren't quite sure who they're suing, so they make it "John Doe" at such and such address, DBA so and so. Spammers are a slippery lot.
Notice they're only suing pornographers. As if that's the only annoying spam.
I get spammed regularly to sign up for Microsoft's certification classes. I know that because it goes in my 'caughtspam' folder, whereupon I delete it.
That last one would mean I'd have to avert my eyes from Slashdot, however briefly. I can't see that happening anytime soon.
CAN'T find the keys. Damn, messed up a frickin' one-liner.
Obviously, you're not a doctor. All real doctors know that you're not senile if you forget where your car is; you're senile if you can find the keys to the sofa.
Absolutely. With so much spam and repetitive information on Usenet, I've always limited my searches by date.
And linking to a single post is the whole point. I know it costs money to keep that stuff online, but surely they could find a way to put ads on deeplinked posts.
Google just used up all its goodwill with me.
Because they deserve it, the sniveling little ingrates!
My wife works in a nursing home. It's her job to fill the old folks' day with interesting activities. She has to make sure that each one of them gets interaction that's not related to their health maintenance. They have an elaborate system for tracking and monitoring the amount and type of interaction each resident gets.
"Senility" is a blanket term covering all kinds of maladies, including Alzheimer's, the effects of stroke, and atrophy of various kinds. Most people in geriatrics agree that to stave off senility you should use the same tactics you use to stay healthy now. Eat sensibly, get plenty of exercise (including the horizontal variety if you can get it!), and engage in mentally challenging activities.
The mentally challenging activities that are best at delaying senility are things you've never done before. If you've never played music, try learning to play an instrument. Learn another language, especially sign language. If you have an elderly relative, get them hooked on email. It won't take long, since they're usually starved for communication.
A talking robot is fine, but old people really need young people.
I have a BS CS degree from the University of Illinois (UIUC). That qualifies me to wash dishes using several layers of abstraction :-). The most important things are:
Somebody blew all their mod points on their own anonymous Troll, Flamebait, Off-Topic, Redundant post!
Funny, maybe. But Insightful?
I started to write that, but stopped short when I realized that I didn't know how it was implemented. There *could* be a database keyed to some unique ID, with title, composer, copyright holder, release date, length, and other management information. Then that song could be blocked.
It doesn't do anything for the actual content of the song, since as you say you can alter the song in any number of ways to hide what it really is. But it won't correspond to the management information, and if that's the only way a song can be requested then the system could work.
But then you still get back to maintaining the antivirus-like database of songs. It's a money loser if it's even possible.
O'course, in 1989 I said only geeks would ever use the Internet.
First, almost everything is copyrighted. We need new terminology, but for now saying "commercial" is better than saying "copyrighted" to describe works for which the author wants payment to allow copying of it.
Second, that the software can do it is not the whole point. There is a business infrastructure that would have to be built around the blocking feature, since someone (or a throng of someones) would have to maintain that information. The feature is worthless without maintenance. I don't think it would work even with a crew maintaining the information ala an antivirus company.
Kazaa argues that their product is just a machine like a copier, a VCR, or a knife. It only does what its user has it do. The other side says they are more like Kinko's or a publisher, with a legal responsibility to monitor what they copy.
It's obvious to me that Kazaa is just a machine, but you never know what will happen in a court room.
I don't understand your argument at all.
I'm not trying to be glib, but I don't understand:
Maybe I'm dense before coffee? Please help me out.
Be careful you don't get stuck there for 20, or find yourself on the sidewalk when the industry passes you by. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.
The same 'job' and the same 'career' are not the same thing.
Just thought I'd add some long-term angst to your day.
No, not really.
... except for the Presidency, that is.
This kind of thing always goes on between terms. No one wants to get stuck in the same job for 8 years