These days IP has spun out of control I think (in the patent office at least). You can get patents for things that are so common sense it's ridiculous. I liked on the Tonight Show when Dave Chapelle said he ran into this rich white guy, and when he asked how he got rich, the guy responded, "My family owns the patent for fire"
im at quakcon, a little drunk but i can report. ther are alot of fucking people here. i drove from colorado and my god, there are people that have driven from alaska. alaska holy damnn..... anyways, shout out to all of./ from qcon 2k4... out
Just because there is a positive benefit doesn't change the fact that the gun is designed to kill. When somebody is deterred by a gun, they recognize that it's an instrument of death. Sure something good came of that realization, but the basic argument that guns are designed to kill people is still valid.
I think the backlash is more about the name of the company being Real. We here at/. are relatively tech-savvy, and probably most of us have had our computers taken over by Real player at one point or another. Real is an evil, evil corporation that wants to plaster the world with so many in-your-face advertisments that you'd need a machete to walk out your front door.
this might not sound cool, but you probably would be able to render the 2 screens in a 3d environment with the eye level of each screen seperated by a little bit. Then you could hold the unit vertical and cross your eyes until the 2 screens meet. then you would be looking at a neat 3d game. of course, people might not want to cross their eyes for extended periods of time...
-scaaven
exactly. even if you aren't keen on creating breakpoints, it isn't very hard to printf() variables along the path of the program that is giving you grief.
the only way a computer could debug an application just as well as a human would be a chinese room.
Van Allen comments that 'the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure.'
those damn adventurers and their ships... i know i'd be content living back in europe where walking was my only mode of transportation. all those people wasting their time building those 'motor buggies' or 'flying machines'. nope, no thank you. no adventure for me, folks. i'm satisified living a static existence.
Several operating systems have been DO-178B Level A certified... probably including the OS his company is producing. this is nothing more than a gasp of air as his company is getting pWn3d by linux.
it's laughable to think that code could be inserted into the linux kernel that would allow some 3rd party to take over the computer. The basic os security code is pretty set in stone (i think), so any changes big or small in that area would be noticed by many many people. oh no, al qaeda has hijacked linux. yeah right
I thought this was pretty much a given. It's very obvious from aerial shots that there was a massive body of water in the northern part of Mars. The lack of craters on the northern end suggests major weathering other than sand storms, because the southern end has more craters yet experiences the same storms.
because every day our government lies to us, and it's refreshing to hear from someone who isn't in the Bush Administration's pocket (note: i say 'administration' because Bush is nothing but a puppet)
The magnetic field of a planet has a direct correlation with the amount of fluid activity (lava) from within. Mars is a small planet, so it cooled off relatively quickly from its accretion period. We can see this similarly with our moon. With little to no convection, the magnetic field will be very low, which is what we observe on Mars. BUT, since we do observe a tiny magnetic field, it suggests that the Martian core might not be completely frozen. Given that Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, it could indicate a great weakness in the crust where gasses from the core could escape easily. And because they are detecting these chemicals around volcanoes, it doesn't seem likely that life is responsible
For example, who really thinks that there is nothing wrong with going about pretending to be a dead persons uncle to claim money that isn't rightfully yours?
I don't care if it is being/.'ed, it's still slow as Bush. Also seems like there's not alot going on under the hood (hey,also like bush). but seriously.
MS has alot of really dumb execs who get their panties in a wad if they don't feel they're "on top." All this search engine can do is hurt them. Time and money will be wasted in a cheap imitation of google that nobody will use except the newbies who can't change the default page of IE. and why? because their egos are as bloated as their software.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, after ~25 seconds
still, i laughed :)
These days IP has spun out of control I think (in the patent office at least). You can get patents for things that are so common sense it's ridiculous. I liked on the Tonight Show when Dave Chapelle said he ran into this rich white guy, and when he asked how he got rich, the guy responded, "My family owns the patent for fire"
im at quakcon, a little drunk but i can report. ther are alot of fucking people here. i drove from colorado and my god, there are people that have driven from alaska. alaska holy damnn..... anyways, shout out to all of ./ from qcon 2k4... out
can someone say 'proxy server'
Just because there is a positive benefit doesn't change the fact that the gun is designed to kill. When somebody is deterred by a gun, they recognize that it's an instrument of death. Sure something good came of that realization, but the basic argument that guns are designed to kill people is still valid.
now I can fry an egg on my LAN card too!
I think the backlash is more about the name of the company being Real. We here at /. are relatively tech-savvy, and probably most of us have had our computers taken over by Real player at one point or another. Real is an evil, evil corporation that wants to plaster the world with so many in-your-face advertisments that you'd need a machete to walk out your front door.
hell yeah. mario tennis forever!
this might not sound cool, but you probably would be able to render the 2 screens in a 3d environment with the eye level of each screen seperated by a little bit. Then you could hold the unit vertical and cross your eyes until the 2 screens meet. then you would be looking at a neat 3d game. of course, people might not want to cross their eyes for extended periods of time... -scaaven
the only way a computer could debug an application just as well as a human would be a chinese room.
-scaaven
interesting how the two ends of the spectrum happen to be the two companies that charge the most for their computers.
those damn adventurers and their ships... i know i'd be content living back in europe where walking was my only mode of transportation. all those people wasting their time building those 'motor buggies' or 'flying machines'. nope, no thank you. no adventure for me, folks. i'm satisified living a static existence.
it's laughable to think that code could be inserted into the linux kernel that would allow some 3rd party to take over the computer. The basic os security code is pretty set in stone (i think), so any changes big or small in that area would be noticed by many many people. oh no, al qaeda has hijacked linux. yeah right
> $100 per share my ass
"Size matters not"
I thought this was pretty much a given. It's very obvious from aerial shots that there was a massive body of water in the northern part of Mars. The lack of craters on the northern end suggests major weathering other than sand storms, because the southern end has more craters yet experiences the same storms.
because every day our government lies to us, and it's refreshing to hear from someone who isn't in the Bush Administration's pocket (note: i say 'administration' because Bush is nothing but a puppet)
The magnetic field of a planet has a direct correlation with the amount of fluid activity (lava) from within. Mars is a small planet, so it cooled off relatively quickly from its accretion period. We can see this similarly with our moon. With little to no convection, the magnetic field will be very low, which is what we observe on Mars. BUT, since we do observe a tiny magnetic field, it suggests that the Martian core might not be completely frozen. Given that Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, it could indicate a great weakness in the crust where gasses from the core could escape easily. And because they are detecting these chemicals around volcanoes, it doesn't seem likely that life is responsible
the guy who wrote weekend at bernie's
while they're at it, they need to punish the overclockers for making their weapons run faster
make it
MS has alot of really dumb execs who get their panties in a wad if they don't feel they're "on top." All this search engine can do is hurt them. Time and money will be wasted in a cheap imitation of google that nobody will use except the newbies who can't change the default page of IE. and why? because their egos are as bloated as their software.
step 2: get a covert programmer to join a successful company. Have him insert your code.
step 3: accuse successful company of stealing and sue them.
step 4: get a big settlement, and make your covert programmer "dissapear" to silence him.
and repeat. watch out Orkut
Careful! If Orrin Hatch gets word of this there might be a constitutional ammendment to sever all American's ears.