And, contrary to what two representatives of Mitsubishi told me in Tokyo in Dec 2004, my drawings are not a problem (at least in 2002/2003) with the US Navy. I don't design in-service, in-commission USN ships, nor do i care to. I design what i hope would in some aspects be BETTER than them.
Having served on a two and toured many more than that before, during and after service, and not as any bonafide naval architect (i hold NO degrees nor credible experience in officially designing modern naval (war)ships, though some people thought i *was* a naval architect, and one of the two men at Mitsubishi seemed to regard me as an industrial spy or someone trying to set them up for copyright law suit...), i set about to create fictional but nearly realistic ships for purposes of story telling. I need realistic equipment locations, fuel capacities, and berthing compartment dispersal, the way ***i*** would build a ship if ***i*** had $1B per copy. The USN's designs hardly interested me after the DDG-51, and i found it offensive that the CG-47 program was so sexy that political decisions were made to deprive the DDG-51 class of the twin hangar bays the FFG-7 class had from the start. Worse, today the DDG-51's hangars look more like an afterthought given the helos straddle the missile launcher aft.
But, i've incorporated into my drawings some features i NOW see are patented by marine engineering/ship construction firms. But, i don't play by those rules. I designed parts of my ideas without reference to some things that popped up after (but not related to my act of showing my works) i did things. Besides, patent all they want. I will just make sure that any detail drawings i make don't mimic the gantries or specific small parts.
But, at least the USN public affairs officer told me i was pretty much in the clear since the US TAXPAYER paid for the design and construction of the ships. But, nowadays, such a statement *might* be called into question, since marine designs sometimes are wholly outsourced and owners only give initial input, with some designers keeping total copyright in the design.
But, there are ONLY so many arrangements that can be conceived that make sense, and if foreign governments and designers are limited by physics or by space limitations, then so am i limited, and therefore, some aspects of copyright law will simply have to yield to common sense and simultaneous invention/design. As long as i'm not designing crypto, nuclear devices, targeting/delivery systems, they better (continue to) leave me alone. Especially since they've for all these years said nothing. Which is what i said in writing when i sold some copies: the USN can either say something or say nothing, and if they say something, they may validate some or many aspects of my work, and if they say nothing, then who knows what they think...
I truly will devote a few minutes tonight offering any offerable karma that might benefit you. I don't know why you're on a mission to disparage me. I get it enough here, and you're way over the top. I don't know you, don't care to engage in duels, spars, barbs with you. I truly hope you find peace and calm in your life. Life is short. Try to enjoy it without undue stress. I'm sure you have talents and inclinations that could be of benefit to many many people. I'm not worth the energy you're expending. I'm not being facile or crazy with you. I'm actually hoping you do find relaxation and resolution and good things in life.
But, in the end if this is "God's" work, then assuming God is perfect, then all is as God wanted, and the humans are simply delusional through and through.
Imagine the human body a car. The will the driver. If a sect or subclass of humans decides they have divination to go and destroy the genome with a flashlight (or by earth-shaking Sunday sermons and witch hunts, etc.) then the general population should be interested in or consider taking up maces, chain lines, and mauls and proceed to go after motorcyclists with loud pipes, who tear down streets keeping people awake at night. Maybe the populace should take axes and drills to suped-up expensive cars, even though the CARS don't kill people, speeding drivers (and a dose of bad luck for the run-down) do.
Admittedly, it's not a good analogy. But, fortunately, flashlights won't fix people up that way, and light-waving people might end up shattering the entire species, even other animals, if everyone with a God's-will mission used a gene-destabilizing piece of instrumentation...
What was that Jack asked/implored in, what, Witches of Eastwick: "Why can't we all just GET ALONG?"?
Wouldn't that have been a better starting point than that thing they call Symphony, which is quite a let-down to me, as I was hoping SmartSuite would have been the basis. Symphony is the name of an earlier Lotus product that got eclipsed by Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Approach.
I am most deeply saddened that IBM simply cannot strip out the stuff to which they do not own patents, then ask the Open Source community to restore the broken functionality, then encourage people to comb the code and rebuilt then non-IBM patents version into a patent-free NEW SMART SUITE.
At LEAST i post under my name and am capable of poking fun at myself, wheres "anonymous coward" permits people to shamelessly insult or outright attack people from a position of comfort.
What's worse?
At least *i* choose not mot moderate people's comments because i'm not in a position to knock them. And when i disagree, i do it in my own name.
Be slick... Become "Locutus of Borg"... (Or, if you prefer, emulate Patrick Stewart... well, at least the baldness part of his life, hehehe..... )
Anyway, when i read:
"About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. The condition's social and economic impact is considerable: expenditures for hair transplantation in the United States alone exceeded $115 million (U.S.) in 2007"
I thought when expenditures reach $115 BILLION, we might be facing a hair-raising national bailout... Or, would that call a hairy fallout?
A330-300 was trying to liven-up and live up to its namesake, hence (hints-hints) the 300-foot climb? And, 330-300=30... seconds to spare? Or, seconds left to SPEAR everyone with crash shrapnel...). I wonder if Quantas would care to QUANTIFY things... Clear the air, so-to-speak.... Not trying to make "light" of the situation...
You're correct. It *is* the Internet. But, imagine, if you will, how much more tense things would be if this were a town hall meeting, and people couldn't be anonymous in slaying others' opinions. I never really thought "anonymous coward" was a good moniker for submissions. It's to condemning or disparaging, given that SOME people MUST remain anonymous, or are not willing to log in from untrusted terminals/systems.
But, i wish that moderation would not be permitted the safe haven of anonymous. Telling someone they're flamebating should cause a field to say, "You must justify the accusation, and expose your ID; you will not be allowed to do anonymous anything except for terminal logins; if you use "Flamebait" or "Off-topic,", be prepared to justify it without ignoring the fact that many threads or submissions in this and other topics do the same thing, and do NOT draw fire, capricious or otherwise."...
But, obviously, i expect too much.
But, like you said, this is the internet, and i ought to relax.
Just how does one "peel on"? I can see slide-on, slip-on, roll-on (and roll off), lay-on/lay-off, and peel-off/stick-on...
But how the hell does one "peel on", even if the tape is double-sided?
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(Administrator...) and the other right-click options to choose XP, 2K, etc would have helped. One would think ms would have created vista from scratch, and, as you say, emulate the older systems. Vista in all versions could have and SHOULD have had embedded in them that existing windows emulator.
But, they decided that certain "16-bit" help files code no longer suited their needs. Fortunately for them, it screwed over the help system and broke several Lotus SmartSuite help file functionality. Someone told me that it wasn't microsoft's responsibility to help Lotus run a bad help program. Thing is, EVERYbody used ms' help program in some way, and in some implementation.
But, a windows 98 emulator built into vista would have perpetuated use of "legacy" apps and probably would have delayed uptake in "new" versions ms would have loved to see 3rd parties sell, principally to compel "upgrading" (side-grading) to vista.
How that was flamebait just completely boggles my mind. ALL i was saying the timing (51 minutes or so apart) was INTERESTING. I did NOT say that someone at/. read my comment and slapped together something to counter my post. Goddamnit. Why in the FUCK are some ingrates trolling around here looking to crush people instead of chiming in to FIX a problem, rather that just out to frag people?
Did i not make in my referenced comment a valid comment? Did i or did i not in my then subsequent comment point out a coincidence? With all those posts, causing my comment to be lost in the background noise, would it be reasonable or likely that it was picked up and then/. felt some overriding compulsion to do a write-up *just to dick with meeeee*.
I swear, some people on this site have no sense of respect, no humor, no compassion, no depth of thought beyond slamming people, and just out for sheer thrill of satisfying vengeful compulsion.
But, i'm going to go and maybe do a walking meditation, because that's one way of not having a thrombosis overrule my own sensibilities when i almost blow as gasket over invisible, distant fools.
"You know what is painful? That a thread starting out at 0 (because i intentionally disable the karma bonus (without bragging that it's turned off)) is knocked to -0 or -0, Off-topic (either before or after others' comments are added), then through sloppy non-tracking and dodgy code of Slashdot, other comments can be appended, gain bonus points, and even quoted the original/slammed/ridiculed gp, and yet the gp does not get automatically "raised" commensurate to (but not necessarily higher than) useful comments of others.
In other words, someone comments, is punished, then quoted by another, who in effect validates the ridiculed/punished commenter, and then Slashdot's coded does not close the loophole exploited by those on a "kill/vendetta" mode of operation.
This hurts, and it CAN be dealt with, but for economic or political reasons, Slashdot "seems" contented with just leaving things this way (for now, but hopefully not forever...)."
You know what is painful? That a thread starting out at 0 (because i intentionally disable the karma bonus (without bragging that it's turned off)) is knocked to -0 or -0, Off-topic (either before or after others' comments are added), then through sloppy non-tracking and dodgy code of Slashdot, other comments can be appended, gain bonus points, and even quoted the original/slammed/ridiculed gp, and yet the gp does not get automatically "raised" commensurate to (but not necessarily higher than) useful comments of others.
In other words, someone comments, is punished, then quoted by another, who in effect validates the ridiculed/punished commenter, and then Slashdot's coded does not close the loophole exploited by those on a "kill/vendetta" mode of operation.
This hurts, and it CAN be dealt with, but for economic or political reasons, Slashdot "seems" contented with just leaving things this way (for now, but hopefully not forever...).
But, my hat is off to TechForensics. Thank you for quoting me and somewhat validating my wry/possibly forecasting-like comments. I really do appreciate it.
Cuz if you step on the wrong agency's documents and ask for them under FOIA, that "sunlight" will CRISP-FRY your ass somethin' realllll goood. And, it won't be "finger-lickin'-good", either. Even crabs wouldn't scavenge upon you after that... (well, if vaporized, there WON'T be anythin' left... hehehehe)
Slashdot Mirror
"hot shit"...
And, contrary to what two representatives of Mitsubishi told me in Tokyo in Dec 2004, my drawings are not a problem (at least in 2002/2003) with the US Navy. I don't design in-service, in-commission USN ships, nor do i care to. I design what i hope would in some aspects be BETTER than them.
Having served on a two and toured many more than that before, during and after service, and not as any bonafide naval architect (i hold NO degrees nor credible experience in officially designing modern naval (war)ships, though some people thought i *was* a naval architect, and one of the two men at Mitsubishi seemed to regard me as an industrial spy or someone trying to set them up for copyright law suit...), i set about to create fictional but nearly realistic ships for purposes of story telling. I need realistic equipment locations, fuel capacities, and berthing compartment dispersal, the way ***i*** would build a ship if ***i*** had $1B per copy. The USN's designs hardly interested me after the DDG-51, and i found it offensive that the CG-47 program was so sexy that political decisions were made to deprive the DDG-51 class of the twin hangar bays the FFG-7 class had from the start. Worse, today the DDG-51's hangars look more like an afterthought given the helos straddle the missile launcher aft.
But, i've incorporated into my drawings some features i NOW see are patented by marine engineering/ship construction firms. But, i don't play by those rules. I designed parts of my ideas without reference to some things that popped up after (but not related to my act of showing my works) i did things. Besides, patent all they want. I will just make sure that any detail drawings i make don't mimic the gantries or specific small parts.
But, at least the USN public affairs officer told me i was pretty much in the clear since the US TAXPAYER paid for the design and construction of the ships. But, nowadays, such a statement *might* be called into question, since marine designs sometimes are wholly outsourced and owners only give initial input, with some designers keeping total copyright in the design.
But, there are ONLY so many arrangements that can be conceived that make sense, and if foreign governments and designers are limited by physics or by space limitations, then so am i limited, and therefore, some aspects of copyright law will simply have to yield to common sense and simultaneous invention/design. As long as i'm not designing crypto, nuclear devices, targeting/delivery systems, they better (continue to) leave me alone. Especially since they've for all these years said nothing. Which is what i said in writing when i sold some copies: the USN can either say something or say nothing, and if they say something, they may validate some or many aspects of my work, and if they say nothing, then who knows what they think...
I truly will devote a few minutes tonight offering any offerable karma that might benefit you. I don't know why you're on a mission to disparage me. I get it enough here, and you're way over the top. I don't know you, don't care to engage in duels, spars, barbs with you. I truly hope you find peace and calm in your life. Life is short. Try to enjoy it without undue stress. I'm sure you have talents and inclinations that could be of benefit to many many people. I'm not worth the energy you're expending. I'm not being facile or crazy with you. I'm actually hoping you do find relaxation and resolution and good things in life.
Regards.
throwing chairs like never, EVER before....
(Wait, what's that rumble i hear from up north....SHIT, he's activating various fault lines in California and the West Coast....)
up being Torchlight Tragedy...?
But, in the end if this is "God's" work, then assuming God is perfect, then all is as God wanted, and the humans are simply delusional through and through.
Imagine the human body a car. The will the driver. If a sect or subclass of humans decides they have divination to go and destroy the genome with a flashlight (or by earth-shaking Sunday sermons and witch hunts, etc.) then the general population should be interested in or consider taking up maces, chain lines, and mauls and proceed to go after motorcyclists with loud pipes, who tear down streets keeping people awake at night. Maybe the populace should take axes and drills to suped-up expensive cars, even though the CARS don't kill people, speeding drivers (and a dose of bad luck for the run-down) do.
Admittedly, it's not a good analogy. But, fortunately, flashlights won't fix people up that way, and light-waving people might end up shattering the entire species, even other animals, if everyone with a God's-will mission used a gene-destabilizing piece of instrumentation...
What was that Jack asked/implored in, what, Witches of Eastwick: "Why can't we all just GET ALONG?"?
Some people are WIRED to not get along...
are reminding me of "Return of the Living Dead", where two characters woke up from the gas leaked from the drum.
The younger one said to the older one, "You stupid asshole!"
The older one said, "You better watch your TONGUE BOY if you like this job."
"LIKE THIS *JOB*????" exclaimed the younger one....
Do you like your job? (hehehe)
Wouldn't that have been a better starting point than that thing they call Symphony, which is quite a let-down to me, as I was hoping SmartSuite would have been the basis. Symphony is the name of an earlier Lotus product that got eclipsed by Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Approach.
I am most deeply saddened that IBM simply cannot strip out the stuff to which they do not own patents, then ask the Open Source community to restore the broken functionality, then encourage people to comb the code and rebuilt then non-IBM patents version into a patent-free NEW SMART SUITE.
"Anyway, this release has one feature that I've been longing after for years now: proper support for marginal comments."
I hope you don't forget to remove disparaging (marginal) remarks from the margin/s...., hehehehe
(My comments in the margins we not truly bad, but the system devise it had me bad...)
(Prunester Runester/Punster Munster attacks!)
causes a Church of the Poisoned Hind, you'll need MaxiPriest to restore you from having gone blind...
(Sorry, this from the prunester runester...)
"Forbidden Links, Forbidden Fruits; Nothing to Eat, Nothing to Poot".
(Yeh, i know it's lame... but some may see it funny just the same...)
At LEAST i post under my name and am capable of poking fun at myself, wheres "anonymous coward" permits people to shamelessly insult or outright attack people from a position of comfort.
What's worse?
At least *i* choose not mot moderate people's comments because i'm not in a position to knock them. And when i disagree, i do it in my own name.
Or do you prefer to be gaudy with baud to God?
Maybe they can brand this thing as The GodiPod, hehehehe.
Parishners/donors might want to think about their charitable donations.... OTOH, Apple *could* just donate them... LOL!
is futile...
Be slick... Become "Locutus of Borg"... (Or, if you prefer, emulate Patrick Stewart... well, at least the baldness part of his life, hehehe..... )
Anyway, when i read:
"About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. The condition's social and economic impact is considerable: expenditures for hair transplantation in the United States alone exceeded $115 million (U.S.) in 2007"
I thought when expenditures reach $115 BILLION, we might be facing a hair-raising national bailout... Or, would that call a hairy fallout?
2. Divide-by-zero patch
2. Reboot
2. Teach future athletes "new math" so they ex, umm, accept lower figures in their salaries...
there...
A330-300 was trying to liven-up and live up to its namesake, hence (hints-hints) the 300-foot climb? And, 330-300=30... seconds to spare? Or, seconds left to SPEAR everyone with crash shrapnel...). I wonder if Quantas would care to QUANTIFY things... Clear the air, so-to-speak.... Not trying to make "light" of the situation...
Or: I'm so verbose and well-heeled that I could literarily spew a file cabinet full of words.
(slash red-underscored "literarily", yet it's a Merriam-defined word.... go... figures, hehehehe)
Google: least harm
microsoft: most lock-in
Yahoo!: possible lock-in
You're correct. It *is* the Internet. But, imagine, if you will, how much more tense things would be if this were a town hall meeting, and people couldn't be anonymous in slaying others' opinions. I never really thought "anonymous coward" was a good moniker for submissions. It's to condemning or disparaging, given that SOME people MUST remain anonymous, or are not willing to log in from untrusted terminals/systems.
But, i wish that moderation would not be permitted the safe haven of anonymous. Telling someone they're flamebating should cause a field to say, "You must justify the accusation, and expose your ID; you will not be allowed to do anonymous anything except for terminal logins; if you use "Flamebait" or "Off-topic,", be prepared to justify it without ignoring the fact that many threads or submissions in this and other topics do the same thing, and do NOT draw fire, capricious or otherwise."...
But, obviously, i expect too much.
But, like you said, this is the internet, and i ought to relax.
Just how does one "peel on"? I can see slide-on, slip-on, roll-on (and roll off), lay-on/lay-off, and peel-off/stick-on...
But how the hell does one "peel on", even if the tape is double-sided?
(Administrator...) and the other right-click options to choose XP, 2K, etc would have helped. One would think ms would have created vista from scratch, and, as you say, emulate the older systems. Vista in all versions could have and SHOULD have had embedded in them that existing windows emulator.
But, they decided that certain "16-bit" help files code no longer suited their needs. Fortunately for them, it screwed over the help system and broke several Lotus SmartSuite help file functionality. Someone told me that it wasn't microsoft's responsibility to help Lotus run a bad help program. Thing is, EVERYbody used ms' help program in some way, and in some implementation.
But, a windows 98 emulator built into vista would have perpetuated use of "legacy" apps and probably would have delayed uptake in "new" versions ms would have loved to see 3rd parties sell, principally to compel "upgrading" (side-grading) to vista.
...
"Can you READ me NEEOWWWWW???!!!"
(*&)$#*^)@#$ @ why you ()*&)(&)
How that was flamebait just completely boggles my mind. ALL i was saying the timing (51 minutes or so apart) was INTERESTING. I did NOT say that someone at /. read my comment and slapped together something to counter my post. Goddamnit. Why in the FUCK are some ingrates trolling around here looking to crush people instead of chiming in to FIX a problem, rather that just out to frag people?
Did i not make in my referenced comment a valid comment? Did i or did i not in my then subsequent comment point out a coincidence? With all those posts, causing my comment to be lost in the background noise, would it be reasonable or likely that it was picked up and then /. felt some overriding compulsion to do a write-up *just to dick with meeeee*.
I swear, some people on this site have no sense of respect, no humor, no compassion, no depth of thought beyond slamming people, and just out for sheer thrill of satisfying vengeful compulsion.
But, i'm going to go and maybe do a walking meditation, because that's one way of not having a thrombosis overrule my own sensibilities when i almost blow as gasket over invisible, distant fools.
my posting:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=991147&cid=25329509
(most of it, at least...)
"You know what is painful? That a thread starting out at 0 (because i intentionally disable the karma bonus (without bragging that it's turned off)) is knocked to -0 or -0, Off-topic (either before or after others' comments are added), then through sloppy non-tracking and dodgy code of Slashdot, other comments can be appended, gain bonus points, and even quoted the original/slammed/ridiculed gp, and yet the gp does not get automatically "raised" commensurate to (but not necessarily higher than) useful comments of others.
In other words, someone comments, is punished, then quoted by another, who in effect validates the ridiculed/punished commenter, and then Slashdot's coded does not close the loophole exploited by those on a "kill/vendetta" mode of operation.
This hurts, and it CAN be dealt with, but for economic or political reasons, Slashdot "seems" contented with just leaving things this way (for now, but hopefully not forever...)."
You know what is painful? That a thread starting out at 0 (because i intentionally disable the karma bonus (without bragging that it's turned off)) is knocked to -0 or -0, Off-topic (either before or after others' comments are added), then through sloppy non-tracking and dodgy code of Slashdot, other comments can be appended, gain bonus points, and even quoted the original/slammed/ridiculed gp, and yet the gp does not get automatically "raised" commensurate to (but not necessarily higher than) useful comments of others.
In other words, someone comments, is punished, then quoted by another, who in effect validates the ridiculed/punished commenter, and then Slashdot's coded does not close the loophole exploited by those on a "kill/vendetta" mode of operation.
This hurts, and it CAN be dealt with, but for economic or political reasons, Slashdot "seems" contented with just leaving things this way (for now, but hopefully not forever...).
But, my hat is off to TechForensics. Thank you for quoting me and somewhat validating my wry/possibly forecasting-like comments. I really do appreciate it.
David
Cuz if you step on the wrong agency's documents and ask for them under FOIA, that "sunlight" will CRISP-FRY your ass somethin' realllll goood. And, it won't be "finger-lickin'-good", either. Even crabs wouldn't scavenge upon you after that... (well, if vaporized, there WON'T be anythin' left... hehehehe)