I'm not sure where the eggs and ham fit in though, can anyone clarify?
Yes indeedy, I surely can. Thru the slot in the side to feed the cat. Otherwise the cat would die before anyone opened the box. You wouldn't want to make a mockery of the whole physics quantum thang by letting the cat starve while the theorists dithered about with blackboards and chalk, would you?
CVS hasn't invoked rcs or diff or anything for ages.
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modern windows...have a higher R factor than a lot of walls
Not bloody likely. Even triple pane windows aren't much more than R-3 or R-4, even if you add in Low-E and all that, you don't get much more. 6" walls (USA) easily get R-38 with insulation. Maybe if you had simple plank walls your windows would be higher.
Because it is an absolutely unworkable law. It cannot be enforced. They might as well requires all cars to drive as 100 years ago, limited to walking speed following a flagman. Or require everyone to salute cops and call them Sir Yer Royal Higness Sir.
When they stoop to unenfiorceable laws like this, it is a sure sign they are running scared.
Let's suppose the silly thing passed. They'd have to redesign the hardware of course. Make it not work with old hardware. Well, let's call that doable.
Now how do they ban Linux, *BSD, etc? They have to, you know. The hardware won't protect Hollywood without the right (M$) software, you do understand that? Right, good. Now let's suppose they make distribution of free source OSes illegal. They will certainly shut down major servers after many court battles. Let's suppose they do so. Let's suppose that the only way to distribute Linux is via anonymous news groups, or email with friends, etc.
Obviously they can't crack down on every single person. They probably couldn't even crack down on enough of them to scare everybody else off. So how do they stop people from working on free source OSes?
They make compilers illegal, that's how. Just like they made Linux and *BSD illegal. They have to, because you couldn't make a compiler which recognizes (and refuses to compile) operating systems, as opposed to harmless applications.
Now tell me, how much of this can they really get away with? I say none of it. Even if they were naive enough to pass the legislation, by the time the courts got done with it, there wouldn't be anything left worth spitting on. The practical aspects of it would get people's attention and there would be so many loopholes that it would be a seive.
IT IS UNWORKABLE and a sign of desperation. They know they have lost. When will you realize it too?
You can't bookmark framesets. I personally like them for some things, but you can't bookmark them. You may be able to bookmark individual parts but not the entire frameset. And by using Javascript to write the frames, well, gheeez, how in the heck are you going to bookmark that? Just plain lame.
As for Javascript, it's a memory leak, it allows popup ads, it is a security risk, and it eats up my processor time. Sometimes I'll have 20 windows open at once. Animated GIFs are bad enough, but javascript mouseovers are atrocious and do nothing to enhance any web site. All style and no substance. 99% of javascript use is strictly for mouseover flash and does nothing for usability. Parameter checking on forms submission is ok, but until I click that submit button, pah!
Popups for some links, I have no problem with that, but you don't need javascript for it, TARGET does fine, unless you think it's important to specify the size, but then you'll get that wrong unless you know my browser font settings.
He's not saying Napster is responsible for the recession, that if Napster had made money, so would others. He's saying that the copyright crackdown on Napster stifled a lot of creativity in the dot com boom. And it wasn't just the Napster crackdown, it was DeCSS, Felten, etc. He says the general tightening of the RIAA/MPAA noose may have scared a lot of dotcommers and vulture capitalists, and stifled creativity. A side effect would be to lessen perceived demand for broadband and reduce corporate investment there too.
My own take is that the recession was predictable (as I myself thought in 1999) based on companies advancing their upgrade schedule to meet Y2K problems, and thus not needing to invest in upgrades for a year or two afterwards.
Be careful what powers the governments assigns to its proxies.
Such as special dispensations to ignore normal contract law by selling "licenses", such as copyright, such as patent,...
*Real* libertarians aren't as one sided as you seem to be. They actually believe in fewer laws of any kind, not just fewer of the kind favorable to their favorite soapbox.
I use free-as-in-speech software because I have been burnt too many times by closed source software which changes in ways I don't want, or doesn't change in ways I do want, or goes out of business, or changes its licensing model, or doesn't keep up with the times and won't work with newer software. Etc etc etc.
I WILL NOT be burned by proprietary software again if I can help it!
As a semi-aside, my original disgust for Microsoft was the patronizing "we know what you want" attitude of their software. Then of course there was the bugginess of it. I also grew to loathe their business non-ethics. A few years ago, a wonderful job went away when some vulture capitalists would not fund a friend's startup "because M$ would dup the effort and we wouldn't get our money back". And since then M$ has compounded all reasons for disgust. However, all this disgust for M$ is not why I use free source software; it's because I don't want to ever again be trapped in proprietary software over which I have no control.
This is getting ridiculous. It's bad enough saying a server is "powered by Apache", or "powered by Linux." Now we have a paper airplane "powered by a cpu".
Goodness gracious, is everyone afraid to say "controlled by"?
If someone cracks the web server, then they also have access to the web server code which decrypts the database info.
If it's readable by the web server, then it's also readable by a cracked web server.
You really need the secret info on a separate machine, with the CC machine never regurgitating anything except a simple answer (valid / invalid) in response to the full set of info (CC#, expiration, name, address). The only info a cracked web server can get is answers to random info, and it would take too long for the cracked web server to try random possibilities.
True VoD would allow you to pick and choose what you see and when, so each stream going out will be completely different. Caching = useless. Where will they store this immense library? If they divide the library up among all servers, you'd need switching to connect servers and customers, and I can easily see bandwith problems. Is that an understatement? Good gosh there WILL be bandwidth limitations. Boggles my mind. I can only assume this is a less-than-complete VoD.
People use the prefixes TWO different ways. Ethernet speed - 10 Mbps -- it's not 10,485,760 bps, its 10,000,000 bps. Look around, you'll find as many examples as you want. Or maybe you did?
And as for Judaism, you're comparing apples (pronunciation) and oranges (meaning).
And furthermore, every American I know pronounces it as you say it SHOULD be pronounced but ISN'T.
3 strikes -- you're out. Go home and sleep it off.
A sub that sinks and doesn't rise again is hardly a submarine, is it? Lots of airplanes were invented, but never flew, so they don't quite qualify either.
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Patents are supposed to cover inventions, eh? Seems like this Time site is the best refutation yet of software and business method patents. Common sense says invetions are seomthing you can touch. Greed says an invention is whatever greed can get away with. Politicians of course agree with whatever pile of money is the biggest.
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I'm not sure where the eggs and ham fit in though, can anyone clarify?
Yes indeedy, I surely can. Thru the slot in the side to feed the cat. Otherwise the cat would die before anyone opened the box. You wouldn't want to make a mockery of the whole physics quantum thang by letting the cat starve while the theorists dithered about with blackboards and chalk, would you?
I'll clean my machine as soon as I get home. Just bought a couple of 160G drives, I want to make sure they start as fresh and clean as possible.
Thank you!
CVS hasn't invoked rcs or diff or anything for ages.
modern windows...have a higher R factor than a lot of walls
Not bloody likely. Even triple pane windows aren't much more than R-3 or R-4, even if you add in Low-E and all that, you don't get much more. 6" walls (USA) easily get R-38 with insulation. Maybe if you had simple plank walls your windows would be higher.
I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
Shouldn't that be shorter rather than longer? It starts later than the present, and ends at the same time...
Because it is an absolutely unworkable law. It cannot be enforced. They might as well requires all cars to drive as 100 years ago, limited to walking speed following a flagman. Or require everyone to salute cops and call them Sir Yer Royal Higness Sir.
When they stoop to unenfiorceable laws like this, it is a sure sign they are running scared.
Let's suppose the silly thing passed. They'd have to redesign the hardware of course. Make it not work with old hardware. Well, let's call that doable.
Now how do they ban Linux, *BSD, etc? They have to, you know. The hardware won't protect Hollywood without the right (M$) software, you do understand that? Right, good. Now let's suppose they make distribution of free source OSes illegal. They will certainly shut down major servers after many court battles. Let's suppose they do so. Let's suppose that the only way to distribute Linux is via anonymous news groups, or email with friends, etc.
Obviously they can't crack down on every single person. They probably couldn't even crack down on enough of them to scare everybody else off. So how do they stop people from working on free source OSes?
They make compilers illegal, that's how. Just like they made Linux and *BSD illegal. They have to, because you couldn't make a compiler which recognizes (and refuses to compile) operating systems, as opposed to harmless applications.
Now tell me, how much of this can they really get away with? I say none of it. Even if they were naive enough to pass the legislation, by the time the courts got done with it, there wouldn't be anything left worth spitting on. The practical aspects of it would get people's attention and there would be so many loopholes that it would be a seive.
IT IS UNWORKABLE and a sign of desperation. They know they have lost. When will you realize it too?
You can't bookmark framesets. I personally like them for some things, but you can't bookmark them. You may be able to bookmark individual parts but not the entire frameset. And by using Javascript to write the frames, well, gheeez, how in the heck are you going to bookmark that? Just plain lame.
As for Javascript, it's a memory leak, it allows popup ads, it is a security risk, and it eats up my processor time. Sometimes I'll have 20 windows open at once. Animated GIFs are bad enough, but javascript mouseovers are atrocious and do nothing to enhance any web site. All style and no substance. 99% of javascript use is strictly for mouseover flash and does nothing for usability. Parameter checking on forms submission is ok, but until I click that submit button, pah!
Popups for some links, I have no problem with that, but you don't need javascript for it, TARGET does fine, unless you think it's important to specify the size, but then you'll get that wrong unless you know my browser font settings.
Insightful? Informative? Did those two even follow the link? Presumably the Funny moderator did.
Sheeeet, I oughta donate all my karma to something usful, like advancements in cheese spreads.
He's not saying Napster is responsible for the recession, that if Napster had made money, so would others. He's saying that the copyright crackdown on Napster stifled a lot of creativity in the dot com boom. And it wasn't just the Napster crackdown, it was DeCSS, Felten, etc. He says the general tightening of the RIAA/MPAA noose may have scared a lot of dotcommers and vulture capitalists, and stifled creativity. A side effect would be to lessen perceived demand for broadband and reduce corporate investment there too.
My own take is that the recession was predictable (as I myself thought in 1999) based on companies advancing their upgrade schedule to meet Y2K problems, and thus not needing to invest in upgrades for a year or two afterwards.
Be careful what powers the governments assigns to its proxies.
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Such as special dispensations to ignore normal contract law by selling "licenses", such as copyright, such as patent,
*Real* libertarians aren't as one sided as you seem to be. They actually believe in fewer laws of any kind, not just fewer of the kind favorable to their favorite soapbox.
Stupid Urban Vehicle
I use free-as-in-speech software because I have been burnt too many times by closed source software which changes in ways I don't want, or doesn't change in ways I do want, or goes out of business, or changes its licensing model, or doesn't keep up with the times and won't work with newer software. Etc etc etc.
I WILL NOT be burned by proprietary software again if I can help it!
As a semi-aside, my original disgust for Microsoft was the patronizing "we know what you want" attitude of their software. Then of course there was the bugginess of it. I also grew to loathe their business non-ethics. A few years ago, a wonderful job went away when some vulture capitalists would not fund a friend's startup "because M$ would dup the effort and we wouldn't get our money back". And since then M$ has compounded all reasons for disgust. However, all this disgust for M$ is not why I use free source software; it's because I don't want to ever again be trapped in proprietary software over which I have no control.
Dang me
I suggest it's something other than the Internet that prompts Frezzeyerassofflandians to keep their clothes on in public places.
....is of course "Schroedinger's Hammer", but I probably spelled his name wrong.
Google's your friend.
From waist high; saw it hit on a corner and take a terrific bunch of bounces. On *tile*. That was a year ago and it's still working great.
This is getting ridiculous. It's bad enough saying a server is "powered by Apache", or "powered by Linux." Now we have a paper airplane "powered by a cpu".
Goodness gracious, is everyone afraid to say "controlled by"?
Such as fruitcake.
If someone cracks the web server, then they also have access to the web server code which decrypts the database info.
If it's readable by the web server, then it's also readable by a cracked web server.
You really need the secret info on a separate machine, with the CC machine never regurgitating anything except a simple answer (valid / invalid) in response to the full set of info (CC#, expiration, name, address). The only info a cracked web server can get is answers to random info, and it would take too long for the cracked web server to try random possibilities.
Just continuing the 2001 theme here folks. Nothing to see, move along...
True VoD would allow you to pick and choose what you see and when, so each stream going out will be completely different. Caching = useless. Where will they store this immense library? If they divide the library up among all servers, you'd need switching to connect servers and customers, and I can easily see bandwith problems. Is that an understatement? Good gosh there WILL be bandwidth limitations. Boggles my mind. I can only assume this is a less-than-complete VoD.
People use the prefixes TWO different ways. Ethernet speed - 10 Mbps -- it's not 10,485,760 bps, its 10,000,000 bps. Look around, you'll find as many examples as you want. Or maybe you did?
And as for Judaism, you're comparing apples (pronunciation) and oranges (meaning).
And furthermore, every American I know pronounces it as you say it SHOULD be pronounced but ISN'T.
3 strikes -- you're out. Go home and sleep it off.
A sub that sinks and doesn't rise again is hardly a submarine, is it? Lots of airplanes were invented, but never flew, so they don't quite qualify either.
Patents are supposed to cover inventions, eh? Seems like this Time site is the best refutation yet of software and business method patents. Common sense says invetions are seomthing you can touch. Greed says an invention is whatever greed can get away with. Politicians of course agree with whatever pile of money is the biggest.