Oh, c'mon. This is a site full of hormones-raging guys. How about a love-doll analogy.
Linux is like a REALDOLL. Windows is like an inflatable.
Linux you can batter and ride like crazy and not really tear it up.
By the time you finish riding windoze, it's all deflated, wrinkly, and ready to be blown up again.
And, since RealDoll is more firmware than hardware, and Windows is more software than firmware, you can someday program your RealDoll with Linux, whereas inflatables with windoze are just windbags.
(A Secret: Realdolls are made strong enough for a nerd, but made for men and women...)
Well, why don't they just recapture all that moisture into the plane. Might leave the pax feeling quite damp, and maybe drunk/dizzy.
Alternatively, recapture whatever vapor they CAN, and compress it into flasks. Sell the compressed fluids on ground.
Or, design the plan to capture the fluid, compress it, then jettison the flasks to land by parachute.
Of course, it would be a helluva logistics problem shuttling around all those flasks. Not to mention the nightmares the TSA and Dept of Homeland InSecurity would have making sure those flasks are ICBMs on final trajectory...
And, there Acts of God clauses would go out the window when those flasks end up on rooftops.
But, technically, how MUCH of the fluid/vapor can be recaptured? Can it be CHILLED or compressed and then release at a LOWER temperature? Might we then get some global COOLING if all new aircraft and retrofitted a/c actually acted as "flying air conditioning units"? A/C^2 (A/C Squared... I coined it...hopefully it means something...)
If not that, then can some sort of ducting (as on military helicopters) be used for cooling the air before it gets too far from the plane?
Moreover, why would anyone in the UK or Japan or places like them buy this and be forced to pay taxes on a new "TV" or receiving device. In Japan, NHK may come after such owners for their share of the TV tax (I can't remember if NHK recently stopped coming after residents/citizens)
Besides, why buy a hyper-proprietary tuner, especially one from microsoft. Doesn't matter if they get it from say, Phillips, or Magnavox or Panasonic, et al, they'll heavily modify it for their own non-standard purposes...
called "Clarice", by an effete engineer/programmer or being told, "It PUTS the hard disk in the bucket, or it gets a reboot...", or something to that effect or affect...
So what? They are one of the FEW transmission paths we have. We decide for ourselves with whom we'll exchange information, then when that information is not stolen or dangerous to the public, or to the net.
The anti-server clauses had their time when transmission problems might have brought down a service. They should ONLY go after servers that are destabilizing the infrastructure, not those that are people exchanging small data volumes. They should look the other way, but no, they want to nickel and dime every goddamn penny they can get.
If they're doing it, then suppose what others might be.
It would be nice if someone set up off-shore counter-attacks to snuff out the man in the middle and make that messenger kill (jam/disrupt) his real masters.
Even better, someone should make tools that listen for MIM attack by comcast, then log them and send them to the FBI, PARTICULARLY if the traffic being interfered with is stocks/commodities, and crossing state lines.
Here's one possible way to screw comcast over:
-- DELIBERATELY move your files to and fro using the protocols they're screwing with
-- If you can avoid encryption, do so. Send the data as business information but not as privacy-controlled information
-- Get both ends to be your company, and your company with client who won't take comcast's SHIT.
-- File charges in multiple jurisdictions, AND amplify your concerns to the DOJ, the FBI and others, particularly the stock exchanges; make them antsy and push down comcast stock value and erode their trustworthiness
Fuck'em if they want to play that way. They want to erode trust and participate with agencies that undermine that fundamental thing we WANT to have. OTOH, if someone IS a LEGIT target of law enforcement, fuck them, too. Their conduct is the REAL reason (or main reason) the rest of us get caught up in these sweeps.
And this conduct, from a company that wants to go around buying up Open Source companies. Corrupting and co-opting fonts, and now they want to show that they can flout copyrighted community work, co-opt then corrupt them, and try to restrain Linux/Open Source to bottom-shelf.
Would be nice if Apple and Open Source developers once and for all drop the macs and mauls and just work together to erode 58% of ms' installed base. Would be nice if Apple and Nokia and others would collaborate on a phone/pda/surfing device OS or OS-less suite of tools AND fonts that either translate nicely or side-step ms' fonts.
Too bad malevolent retribution doesn't happen to assholes and companies the conspire and use their weight and might to CRUSH freedom of choice and desire to not be corralled as a corporate asset.
Fortunately for these copyrights mshaft will (hopefully) have a tougher bargain than they hoped for. Hopefully this is merely a transparent, cheap attempt to clean up their fetid image and ruthless history. We can see right through you, mshaft.
So, if Star Wars DOES become as good as BSG & as Firefly, then can we say that Star Wars ripped THEM off? Ironic, turnabout. The original BSG was not nearly as good as the current BSG, nor as Star Wars, as some would say. Now, we get to see if the NEW Star Wars series/prequel/whatever will be worse than the original BSG or Star Wars. I just can't see Star Wars making people laugh, cry, alternately root for the bad guy/good guy, reflect/ponder and TOUCH, resonate with the human psyche nearly as nicely as "BSG retold" does. At least, it can't for me.
(I once walked out on Star Wars, the one in 1999, in SF, on Geary and 3rd area, and people were gasping, shocked that anyone would. Heads actually TURNED in our direction. Well, it was my then-girlfriend, and these ASSHOLES (group of 4 or 5 ppl) had a wet seat between them, and I OFFERED to take the wet seat, just so I could sit next to my girlfriend, and they snickered, the kind of males they were, jeered as if they were not going to let this couple enjoy being side-by-side. (It was a FULL house, and seemed only 3 seats were empty-- the wet one and two separated seats separated by these jerks...)
I was hurt, and it felt undignified. She was hurt, too, considering it was he first year to the US (from China) and expected BETTER of such hard-core, devoted, seemingly-nice fans of an iconic American fi... movie. So, I nodded askingly and we joined up and left. I felt a sense of sadness and gratification to WALK OUT in only 10 minutes. It was the most sad walk-out, even tho I was there for HER, not for myself (I am a Trek/BST/Crusade/etc fan), and I still have not seen that issue of Star wars.)
1. It generates BILLABLE HOURS, that's why. The arcane, precise, obfuscatory language is used by habit and by greed to keep the commoner from defending him/herself.
2. Lawyers don't want to be reduced to mere proof-readers.
3. Courts (judges) don't want labyrinthine segues to get to "justice"; jurors probably would like the entertainment value
4. Court reporters would have to consume more paper and charge for the longer hours.
5. Court dockets would be vastly longer
Unfortunately, though there are many SMART and INTELLIGENT people who could read up on relevant or precedent cases, too many might do worse to themselves than the lawyers would do to them. OTOH, way too many lawyers don't deserve to be in the position of raking in SO much money for what little service SOME of them provide.
I hope to never NEED a lawyer, but if I do, I hope I have a SHITLOAD of money before retaining one.
As for the broken patent system, we need less of the obfuscatory, self-adulating bullshit language and more brevity. Too much of the language is coarse, idiotic, and mind-numbingly filled with rat-gutter weasle-ways to deny a crafter inventor some wiggle room to design AROUND the patent. Too many patents based on the obvious are approved by sheer dint of the tomes of material and references provided to snow or ply the reviewing agent. Too many references means that the casual inventor becomes bogged down chasing citations/references and evaluating every last word for legal minefields.
Aside from the stress DECENT lawyers must go through, in general, they must take home a LOT of money.
And how long before the price drops a bit more. I realize Apple products have a vanity, cachet, and other aspects of "image" maintained by high prices and acceptance of non-accession of a lot of potential customers, but I would not mind having an iPhone if it cost, say, $150, AND was not LOCKED INTO AT&T.
Do those two things Apple and I WILL buy an iPhone, just for the sake of having the cool gadget. What'll suck, though, is having two phone bills, one of which could be an ISP bill payment.
I don't know if the iPhone acts as a Wi-Fi modem, but it would not be bad if a laptop could be linked up to it.
"However, there is a principle in law (or Equity) that one cannot do indirectly what he cannot do directly. An interesting question for practicing lawyers (I am a retired one and not up on all of this) would be, is there a way to attribute the Plaintiff's actions to Microsoft, canceling their GPL rights? Would it in fact be too late to do this based on their provable support of SCO (the massive loans arranged by MS to keep SCO afloat)? I'd sure like to hear what Eben Moglen has to say about this."
So, I would suspect that unless the laws are rewritten, scientists and police cannot get together and just create a melee among criminals where there is the possibility (high possibility) of criminals killing each other off and then dragging the public into it, too.
Besides, some politicians will just fill the power/crime vacuum in short order, I bet.
Maybe they ate their own dog food and used the troubled hexed-cell (excel) to generate the copying limits. Some bad rows and columns, and voila! Perpetual problems.
Does HAVE to be limited to "extended attrib" files?
I wonder if users of say, AutoCAD, are affected. Anyone using HUGE files and using XREFS to link to hundreds of drawings with thousands and thousands of objects (maybe hundreds and hundreds of thousands in a single drawing) might stop and wonder what parts of the drawing might not be showing up. I wonder if AutoDesk will generate a checksum tool (if there isn't one) to daily allay fears users may have.
When I copy and paste in some drawings, TENS of thousands of objects get copied or moved, sucking up a huge chunk of the 512 MB my machine has, and it bogs it down.
Probably other apps like backup applications theoretically could have a problem, no?
(I'm thinking of the merger picture from I think an Economist or National Geographic or other mag, from about 1994, when two companies "merged"... There was a hand-written caption "Who is the top partner"... It was posted in the Shipping/Receiving/Mail Room area of Bay Networks where I temped back then.)
(And, to go to the way-back machine, to pull some words from Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute"... "If TWO become ONE, who is the ONE TWO beCOMES?"...)
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Oh, c'mon. This is a site full of hormones-raging guys. How about a love-doll analogy.
Linux is like a REALDOLL. Windows is like an inflatable.
Linux you can batter and ride like crazy and not really tear it up.
By the time you finish riding windoze, it's all deflated, wrinkly, and ready to be blown up again.
And, since RealDoll is more firmware than hardware, and Windows is more software than firmware, you can someday program your RealDoll with Linux, whereas inflatables with windoze are just windbags.
(A Secret: Realdolls are made strong enough for a nerd, but made for men and women...)
Congress != Progress
Procreate != Concreate
Conjugate != Projugate
Condom != Prodom
Condomnation != ehh... umm, where's this going?
Well, why don't they just recapture all that moisture into the plane. Might leave the pax feeling quite damp, and maybe drunk/dizzy.
Alternatively, recapture whatever vapor they CAN, and compress it into flasks. Sell the compressed fluids on ground.
Or, design the plan to capture the fluid, compress it, then jettison the flasks to land by parachute.
Of course, it would be a helluva logistics problem shuttling around all those flasks. Not to mention the nightmares the TSA and Dept of Homeland InSecurity would have making sure those flasks are ICBMs on final trajectory...
And, there Acts of God clauses would go out the window when those flasks end up on rooftops.
But, technically, how MUCH of the fluid/vapor can be recaptured? Can it be CHILLED or compressed and then release at a LOWER temperature? Might we then get some global COOLING if all new aircraft and retrofitted a/c actually acted as "flying air conditioning units"? A/C^2 (A/C Squared... I coined it...hopefully it means something...)
If not that, then can some sort of ducting (as on military helicopters) be used for cooling the air before it gets too far from the plane?
Saves are impermanent. Backups are enlightening.
Moreover, why would anyone in the UK or Japan or places like them buy this and be forced to pay taxes on a new "TV" or receiving device. In Japan, NHK may come after such owners for their share of the TV tax (I can't remember if NHK recently stopped coming after residents/citizens)
http://www.google.com/search?q=nhk+tv+tax&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Besides, why buy a hyper-proprietary tuner, especially one from microsoft. Doesn't matter if they get it from say, Phillips, or Magnavox or Panasonic, et al, they'll heavily modify it for their own non-standard purposes...
called "Clarice", by an effete engineer/programmer or being told, "It PUTS the hard disk in the bucket, or it gets a reboot...", or something to that effect or affect...
Our non-irradiated overlord are there... and elsewhere
So what? They are one of the FEW transmission paths we have. We decide for ourselves with whom we'll exchange information, then when that information is not stolen or dangerous to the public, or to the net.
The anti-server clauses had their time when transmission problems might have brought down a service. They should ONLY go after servers that are destabilizing the infrastructure, not those that are people exchanging small data volumes. They should look the other way, but no, they want to nickel and dime every goddamn penny they can get.
That is just heinous. It's ghastly.
If they're doing it, then suppose what others might be.
It would be nice if someone set up off-shore counter-attacks to snuff out the man in the middle and make that messenger kill (jam/disrupt) his real masters.
Even better, someone should make tools that listen for MIM attack by comcast, then log them and send them to the FBI, PARTICULARLY if the traffic being interfered with is stocks/commodities, and crossing state lines.
Here's one possible way to screw comcast over:
-- DELIBERATELY move your files to and fro using the protocols they're screwing with
-- If you can avoid encryption, do so. Send the data as business information but not as privacy-controlled information
-- Get both ends to be your company, and your company with client who won't take comcast's SHIT.
-- File charges in multiple jurisdictions, AND amplify your concerns to the DOJ, the FBI and others, particularly the stock exchanges; make them antsy and push down comcast stock value and erode their trustworthiness
Fuck'em if they want to play that way. They want to erode trust and participate with agencies that undermine that fundamental thing we WANT to have. OTOH, if someone IS a LEGIT target of law enforcement, fuck them, too. Their conduct is the REAL reason (or main reason) the rest of us get caught up in these sweeps.
(let the "troll" rankings come...)
And this conduct, from a company that wants to go around buying up Open Source companies. Corrupting and co-opting fonts, and now they want to show that they can flout copyrighted community work, co-opt then corrupt them, and try to restrain Linux/Open Source to bottom-shelf.
Would be nice if Apple and Open Source developers once and for all drop the macs and mauls and just work together to erode 58% of ms' installed base. Would be nice if Apple and Nokia and others would collaborate on a phone/pda/surfing device OS or OS-less suite of tools AND fonts that either translate nicely or side-step ms' fonts.
Too bad malevolent retribution doesn't happen to assholes and companies the conspire and use their weight and might to CRUSH freedom of choice and desire to not be corralled as a corporate asset.
Fortunately for these copyrights mshaft will (hopefully) have a tougher bargain than they hoped for. Hopefully this is merely a transparent, cheap attempt to clean up their fetid image and ruthless history. We can see right through you, mshaft.
So, if Star Wars DOES become as good as BSG & as Firefly, then can we say that Star Wars ripped THEM off? Ironic, turnabout. The original BSG was not nearly as good as the current BSG, nor as Star Wars, as some would say. Now, we get to see if the NEW Star Wars series/prequel/whatever will be worse than the original BSG or Star Wars. I just can't see Star Wars making people laugh, cry, alternately root for the bad guy/good guy, reflect/ponder and TOUCH, resonate with the human psyche nearly as nicely as "BSG retold" does. At least, it can't for me.
(I once walked out on Star Wars, the one in 1999, in SF, on Geary and 3rd area, and people were gasping, shocked that anyone would. Heads actually TURNED in our direction. Well, it was my then-girlfriend, and these ASSHOLES (group of 4 or 5 ppl) had a wet seat between them, and I OFFERED to take the wet seat, just so I could sit next to my girlfriend, and they snickered, the kind of males they were, jeered as if they were not going to let this couple enjoy being side-by-side. (It was a FULL house, and seemed only 3 seats were empty-- the wet one and two separated seats separated by these jerks...)
I was hurt, and it felt undignified. She was hurt, too, considering it was he first year to the US (from China) and expected BETTER of such hard-core, devoted, seemingly-nice fans of an iconic American fi... movie. So, I nodded askingly and we joined up and left. I felt a sense of sadness and gratification to WALK OUT in only 10 minutes. It was the most sad walk-out, even tho I was there for HER, not for myself (I am a Trek/BST/Crusade/etc fan), and I still have not seen that issue of Star wars.)
"Why isn't this a requirement?"
Because:
1. It generates BILLABLE HOURS, that's why. The arcane, precise, obfuscatory language is used by habit and by greed to keep the commoner from defending him/herself.
2. Lawyers don't want to be reduced to mere proof-readers.
3. Courts (judges) don't want labyrinthine segues to get to "justice"; jurors probably would like the entertainment value
4. Court reporters would have to consume more paper and charge for the longer hours.
5. Court dockets would be vastly longer
Unfortunately, though there are many SMART and INTELLIGENT people who could read up on relevant or precedent cases, too many might do worse to themselves than the lawyers would do to them. OTOH, way too many lawyers don't deserve to be in the position of raking in SO much money for what little service SOME of them provide.
I hope to never NEED a lawyer, but if I do, I hope I have a SHITLOAD of money before retaining one.
As for the broken patent system, we need less of the obfuscatory, self-adulating bullshit language and more brevity. Too much of the language is coarse, idiotic, and mind-numbingly filled with rat-gutter weasle-ways to deny a crafter inventor some wiggle room to design AROUND the patent. Too many patents based on the obvious are approved by sheer dint of the tomes of material and references provided to snow or ply the reviewing agent. Too many references means that the casual inventor becomes bogged down chasing citations/references and evaluating every last word for legal minefields.
Aside from the stress DECENT lawyers must go through, in general, they must take home a LOT of money.
What were they doing? Chanting runes, or calculating by an excel error?
I mean, can a computer predict how much toilet paper 25 different people will consume after eating at Taco Bell?
Butt, a head start would be to print on each sheet "Did I predict the number of sheets and plies you just used? Call 0BADF00D 000hDW1PE"
unpossible? I can imagine the computer saying, "Insufficient data to arrive at a logical explanation."
And how long before the price drops a bit more. I realize Apple products have a vanity, cachet, and other aspects of "image" maintained by high prices and acceptance of non-accession of a lot of potential customers, but I would not mind having an iPhone if it cost, say, $150, AND was not LOCKED INTO AT&T.
Do those two things Apple and I WILL buy an iPhone, just for the sake of having the cool gadget. What'll suck, though, is having two phone bills, one of which could be an ISP bill payment.
I don't know if the iPhone acts as a Wi-Fi modem, but it would not be bad if a laptop could be linked up to it.
Leads to an array of RAIDs...
In:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=326235&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=20952949
TechForensics told us:
"However, there is a principle in law (or Equity) that one cannot do indirectly what he cannot do directly. An interesting question for practicing lawyers (I am a retired one and not up on all of this) would be, is there a way to attribute the Plaintiff's actions to Microsoft, canceling their GPL rights? Would it in fact be too late to do this based on their provable support of SCO (the massive loans arranged by MS to keep SCO afloat)? I'd sure like to hear what Eben Moglen has to say about this."
So, I would suspect that unless the laws are rewritten, scientists and police cannot get together and just create a melee among criminals where there is the possibility (high possibility) of criminals killing each other off and then dragging the public into it, too.
Besides, some politicians will just fill the power/crime vacuum in short order, I bet.
Maybe they ate their own dog food and used the troubled hexed-cell (excel) to generate the copying limits. Some bad rows and columns, and voila! Perpetual problems.
Does HAVE to be limited to "extended attrib" files?
I wonder if users of say, AutoCAD, are affected. Anyone using HUGE files and using XREFS to link to hundreds of drawings with thousands and thousands of objects (maybe hundreds and hundreds of thousands in a single drawing) might stop and wonder what parts of the drawing might not be showing up. I wonder if AutoDesk will generate a checksum tool (if there isn't one) to daily allay fears users may have.
When I copy and paste in some drawings, TENS of thousands of objects get copied or moved, sucking up a huge chunk of the 512 MB my machine has, and it bogs it down.
Probably other apps like backup applications theoretically could have a problem, no?
"What does that tell you? Ha? Ha?"
That SOMEbody's croakin' too much smack... (A Spoonerism)
Yeh, they were smokin' laced Bubblicious back then. That bubble popped and stuck all over their faces
Well, WHO was the top partner?
(I'm thinking of the merger picture from I think an Economist or National Geographic or other mag, from about 1994, when two companies "merged"... There was a hand-written caption "Who is the top partner"... It was posted in the Shipping/Receiving/Mail Room area of Bay Networks where I temped back then.)
(And, to go to the way-back machine, to pull some words from Hall & Oates' "Did It in a Minute"... "If TWO become ONE, who is the ONE TWO beCOMES?"...)
"Many people believe that he pulled the wool of Time Warner's eyes."
OUCH! That must have hurt, spinning a new Case (of) yarn like that...