Also, the I.P. for anything you create in this environment will be owned by the company. I suspect if they think you are capable of anything significantly creative, they may 'set you loose' and be ready to sic the lawyers on you as soon as it is to their advantage.
Many of us maintain signifcant home labs specifically because anything created using the company gear is the companies' property.
He is a 'Religious Studies' professor, which can, and in this case does, mean 'someone who studies religious as a curiosity.' He views himself as a _scientist_ and above the subject he studies.
Mirecki evidently sent poorly worded email with anti-Christian sentiments around to people interested in the class, and was subsequently beaten for his troubles.
All he had to do was stick to science and his ideas would have won. Instead, he played into the stereotype that 'scientists are anti-Christian' and has paid the price.
But there are really three sides to the issue:
1. Dogmatic Christians pushing their belief system as the anti-science.
2. Dogmatic Athiests pushing their belief system as the anti-religion.
It's absolutely indecent, calling something a Sun Ultra 20 that doesn't even have an UltraSparc processor in it. I am tempted to erect a catapult across the road from Sun headquarters and hurl Ultra 5 workstations at them.
Sun truly is 'going the Carly way' it seems. Stripmining their credibility to 'preserve stock value' for a bit longer.
No. It's nothing that complex. VA Doorstops, (or whatever the heck the overlords who pay for Malda's anime are calling themselves now) is trying to prevent another dip in their stock price.
Banner Hits. It's like the dude who says 'Plastics' in the movie The Graduate.
People like printers and they like hard copy. This really isn't the place to start a flamewar about pro- and con-printer things. So why are you starting one?
I strongly disagree with the whole 'paperless office' scheme, but am not going to get into it. Please take your off-topic ideology elsewhere.
Except, it's the slashdot editors, trying to get hits by posting this same old same-old yet again.
It gets boring. Can't articles like this be restricted to an 'advocacy' section so we can block it from our front page? (similar to the *.advocacy usenet newsgroups)
As a result of these posting barriers, you hardly see any reader comments on the Herald's site, and what few there are seem to come from a small group that posts over and over.
I speculate that there are probably an equal number of women masquerading as men in online games (to avoid all the comeons and crap) as there are men masquerading as women (for odd kicks, I guess).
One of the things that 'giving a gift' can represent is giving someone else something that you like in hopes that they may like it as well. It's a concept called 'sharing.'
Most road maintenance is paid for from taxes specifically on automotobiles and the fuel they consume. Joe Schwinn and his Ten Speed pals pay for almost none of the road they roll their bikes on.
Living here in a 'red' state I hereby volunteer to surrender all that swag. As soon as the 'blue' states will do the same.
Problem is, the population is less dense out here. A few local taxes to keep the roads going will do it for us.
Enjoy sweltering in your high density nightmare cities, then, blue staters. Believe me, you have a LOT more expensive infrastructure to keep those areas even tolerable.
So the microcode in the CPU, the firmware in all drives and peripherals, is all presumably fully disclosed in this 'home-brew embedded system'??
Cool. I've wanted to see the source for the firmware for a hard drive for awhile. Where do I go to look at it? Does this include the source for the DSP chips on the hard drive, or just the main processor??
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Yes, and the Apple eMate, in this era of widespread connectivity, and the vast amounts of information now available, might have been more successful.
Back when the eMate came out, digital infomation was mostly shuffled around on stuffy little CD-ROMs.
If it can vaporize metal, just think what it does to flesh...
Unless your skin is made of metal, the discharge curve will be much, much less sharp. Your skin is far less conductive than metal.
Also, the I.P. for anything you create in this environment will be owned by the company. I suspect if they think you are capable of anything significantly creative, they may 'set you loose' and be ready to sic the lawyers on you as soon as it is to their advantage.
Many of us maintain signifcant home labs specifically because anything created using the company gear is the companies' property.
Where did I say 'everybody sucks'???
What I stated, translated to your terms, is: 'both groups of ranting idiots suck.'
The rest of us are doing okay.
He is a 'Religious Studies' professor, which can, and in this case does, mean 'someone who studies religious as a curiosity.' He views himself as a _scientist_ and above the subject he studies.
Mirecki evidently sent poorly worded email with anti-Christian sentiments around to people interested in the class, and was subsequently beaten for his troubles.
All he had to do was stick to science and his ideas would have won. Instead, he played into the stereotype that 'scientists are anti-Christian' and has paid the price.
But there are really three sides to the issue:
1. Dogmatic Christians pushing their belief system as the anti-science.
2. Dogmatic Athiests pushing their belief system as the anti-religion.
3. The Rest Of Us.
It's absolutely indecent, calling something a Sun Ultra 20 that doesn't even have an UltraSparc processor in it. I am tempted to erect a catapult across the road from Sun headquarters and hurl Ultra 5 workstations at them.
Sun truly is 'going the Carly way' it seems. Stripmining their credibility to 'preserve stock value' for a bit longer.
I'll remember that one next time someone is extolling the virtues of using an online bank at me.
Yes, definitely BeOS, too. I'd probably have to buy a new 8-way KVM switch.
No. It's nothing that complex. VA Doorstops, (or whatever the heck the overlords who pay for Malda's anime are calling themselves now) is trying to prevent another dip in their stock price.
Banner Hits. It's like the dude who says 'Plastics' in the movie The Graduate.
People like printers and they like hard copy. This really isn't the place to start a flamewar about pro- and con-printer things. So why are you starting one?
I strongly disagree with the whole 'paperless office' scheme, but am not going to get into it. Please take your off-topic ideology elsewhere.
Except, it's the slashdot editors, trying to get hits by posting this same old same-old yet again.
It gets boring. Can't articles like this be restricted to an 'advocacy' section so we can block it from our front page? (similar to the *.advocacy usenet newsgroups)
If it were, I'd put an OS/2 Warp system up on my KVM switch in a heartbeat.
As a result of these posting barriers, you hardly see any reader comments on the Herald's site, and what few there are seem to come from a small group that posts over and over.
Wow! Where have I seen that phenomenon??!!??
She's just pulling a Tipper Gore.
And look where it got Tipper.
I speculate that there are probably an equal number of women masquerading as men in online games (to avoid all the comeons and crap) as there are men masquerading as women (for odd kicks, I guess).
Okay. Here's an example: cut off all funding for Mass Transit in Houston and in New York.
Which city turns into a hellhole first?
Bikes also require a higher-quality more expensive road than automobiles and trucks.
One of the things that 'giving a gift' can represent is giving someone else something that you like in hopes that they may like it as well. It's a concept called 'sharing.'
Most road maintenance is paid for from taxes specifically on automotobiles and the fuel they consume. Joe Schwinn and his Ten Speed pals pay for almost none of the road they roll their bikes on.
Big deal.
The government doesn't provide free Comic Books, either. (aside from DARE comix at the police station, probably...)
Living here in a 'red' state I hereby volunteer to surrender all that swag. As soon as the 'blue' states will do the same.
Problem is, the population is less dense out here. A few local taxes to keep the roads going will do it for us.
Enjoy sweltering in your high density nightmare cities, then, blue staters. Believe me, you have a LOT more expensive infrastructure to keep those areas even tolerable.
But cut it ALL off. Sounds good to me.
Anybody with an old phono turntable knows that 'revolution' just means spinning in place on a spindle.
33-1/3 Revolutions Per Minute? That beats out even Che and Castrato.
but given the reports from Ohio during the Presidential election of roving Windows Buttons that would only accept a vote for Bush,
True, but those reports are from the same people who search for hours for the 'Any' key.
So the microcode in the CPU, the firmware in all drives and peripherals, is all presumably fully disclosed in this 'home-brew embedded system'??
Cool. I've wanted to see the source for the firmware for a hard drive for awhile. Where do I go to look at it? Does this include the source for the DSP chips on the hard drive, or just the main processor??