Whenever you pull your hand back out of this particular legal cookie jar and think you won, count your fingers... I am wondering what we lost in this fight. Surely the fat cats like Hatch who suckle at the teat of big Entertainment will simply re-introduce this and attach it to a "Free Day Care for Handicapped Children" bill or some such pablum.
Can anyone say tactical retreat?
Check out http://www.ipaction.org/ if you want to fight the power with the weapon of choice in this particular melee. Cold hard cash.
I think that the comparison between a PhD and a CCIE is like comparing a GED to an MBA. The two are ostensibly related in that they are both acronyms, and there are requirements to obtaining them as a suffix to your last name, but that is about it.
But I have known some worthless PhD's and some pretty smart Cisco Guys, so maybe the comparison is apt.
I just have a bachelor's, these thoughts are way above my pay grade...
It is safe to say that the average voter will have no clue what a responsible stand on any scientific question question might be as most have no responsible, ethical, framework that is consistent and applicable to important scientific issues like these.
It is also safe to say that after reading this article, an average voter would have lost interest in the first few sentences, wiped the drool from the corner of their mouth, and gone back to finding porn site passwords.
I thought you were kidding. But, no, I checked out the link and sure enough, there is a whole series of manga dedicated to a dude with a little chick for a right hand.
I was waiting for a frame with Leela from Futurama in the background saying "This is, by a wide margin, the least likeliest thing to have happened."
This is proof. Too many Japanese people have drawing talent.
Hey, don't get me wrong... I work for the company that owns VMware corp and I think it is the greatest tool since TextPad or GCC... but I also find that it is a solution looking for problems at times...
I have several purpose built DamnSmall Linuxum ISO's I use for testing myself. But my point was that Go has not needed the PC, much less a virtual PC for several thousand years. Therefore, I found your the proposed VMware solution amusing.
Boot an OS, to bootstrap a VMware virtual machine, to boot Linux, to play a game that has been played for almost 6000 years without a computer.
Talk about an ob hack! You might as well have the language set to Mandarin and a run Perl based interface to babelfish the translating for you real time...
VMware kicks ass, but I am throwing a yellow flag, and calling you 15 yards for inappropriately complex use of otherwise good software.
Wait... I know, Boot XP and run a Win2k session with a copy of VMware running a linux session, with a copy of VMware mounting the iso of a virtual GO game... First buy 3GB of RAM...
The thing about Chinese Virus Scanners. After an hour you are still infected and need to scan again.
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I agree that the cost of an accident like the tradgedy at Chernobyl is high, however I also pointed out that the Bureaucrats at Chernobyl created their own "perfect" storm, not the least of which is that they ran a breeder reactor without a containment dome.
It has been empirically demonstrated that a sufficiently enclosed, self contained reactor, can sustain a criticality event without causing death or damage to the surrounding area. Like the Three Mile Island disaster in this country. Check out this map In that event, no radiation released because we require a multilayered steel and concrete dome be put on top of the core BEFORE the accident (unlike the steel, concrete, and dolomite monstrosity that brave (now dead) pilots poured onto a burning graphite fire at Chernobyl)
Unless there are more dead dionsaurs and diatoms than we thought, nuclear energy is the answer till fusion comes along. If these port-a-nukes are at all safe AND cheap, then they are a huge step forward.
But we refuse to see it in this country thanks to Three Mile Island and Jane "China Syndrome" Fonda. Anti-Nuker's respond to this: To oppose nuclear power is to support the long term health effects of exposure to Coal and Oil fired power plant poison. MERCURY HAS NO HALF LIFE.
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In the United States, no nuclear plants have been ordered since 1978 and more than 100 reactors have been canceled, including all ordered after 1973.
Yet the plants we do have, 103 of them in 31 states, produce 20% of our electricity requirements.
At Chernobyl, in the worst possible nuclear accident, in the worst possible place, with the worst possible safegauards, staffing, and reaction to the crisis:
31 people died (most of them heroically) on site at the time of the accident
after all this time, only 10 deaths from thyroid cancer can be attributed to this accident.
We should be producing these port-a-nukes and putting them 2500 feet underground with wires sticking out every 500sq miles in this country!
Or we could wait till gas hits 5 dollars per gallon like in Europe.
I bet if we had over 100% electrical capacity covered by non-oil, non-coal fired power plants, all of our lives would be better.
And our Middle East foreign policy would be greatly improved if they didn't have anything we wanted. Things aren't going well at the negotiating table? Screw house of Saud and walk away.
In that context, what Middle Eastern country would want to be a "state sponsor of terroism."
We shouldn't be giving this stuff away to countries until all of our needs are met here. At best, they will only hate us slightly less for patronizing them.
Are we somehow obligated to prop up their governmental "bad ideas" while we fail to deal with our own? Why, cause we have money? Tell Bill Gates that he is required to buy lemonade from my kid because, relative to him, my family is "disadvantged." AND he should do it till he is poor and I am not.
Except that the cars that have had the biggest impact are "retro" ie: The Dodge Prowler, PT Cruiser, and similar "advances"
When something has trule achieved a level of a commodity, the only thing left is branding. Look at toothpaste. If Crest didn't spend megabucks on advertising they would be up a creek.
OSS would not fare well if the only thing between a particular GUI and consumer acceptance is Microsoft's Marketing Machine. They only trump card OSS has is that it is free... but price does not always trump branding. Generic beer anyone?
Desktops have to have some "sexiness" that is a diferrentiating factor between them and all other desktops. Macs and their various OS incarnations have always been an example of this.
I conceed your point that the core widgets (buttons, windows, scroll bars) will tend towards commoditization when you are dealing with certain given's (like a keyboard, a 2d mouse interface and a monitor based presentation system). However, that doesn't change the fact that "fins" are important, even when they might suck and represent only an incremental change.
Since we own the license to "consume" the content, so if we back it up we are fine. If the value of the information is high enough that we rip it to MP3 and share it with the universe, then that should be fine too. The first use is legal, the second is not. That does not change the fact that digital content is a meme that will resist all efforts to contain it.
If, as the story says, they are being denied access to the site on the grounds that they are not professional Egyptologists, how did they find out all of the information they base their theory on?
Did they use some Star Trek Sensor array from high above the surface of the earth?
The Pre-baby boomer generation needs to have this sugar-coated pablum shoved down their e-mail virus opening, AOL using, hanging bare ass off the internet without a firewall with a windows 9x machine using, throats. Forcibly if necessary.
Somebody rewrite it in the same ouvre that Caroll O'Connor used so effectively in "All In The Family"
"Awww geeeez! Don't open that email you meathead!"
They invented the stuff, let us use it.
(I'm just pissed that they will always be able to hold that "saved the world from hitler" thing over us for eternity.)
So if I use DVDShrink or a similar tool to easily and quickly duplicate or resample DVD's then Julia Roberts goes homeless and has to sell herself for scratch tickets?
I like those odds!
Vending machine hook up, no pun intended.
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I hope to hell they plan on letting some of the sim girl's virtual rewards link directly to the Japanese School Girl Soiled Panty Vending machines so you can hear the sound of one hand clapping here in "meatspace."
Besides that crappy HPFS driver from OS/2 are there any non MS filesystem drivers anywhere? NFS doesn't count because it is a "Network" file system.
If you don't want FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (4 or 5), or the OS2 thingy, aren't you out of luck? How would you even install it? Much less mount it, format it, or take advantage of it.
I am not being facetious either, I really want to know
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But the occassional beheading becomes annoying.
Can anyone say tactical retreat?
Check out http://www.ipaction.org/ if you want to fight the power with the weapon of choice in this particular melee. Cold hard cash.
Can't we just take the rich, spoiled class of people who will do this and change their trajectory to the sun? At least NASA gave us velcro and Tang.
But I have known some worthless PhD's and some pretty smart Cisco Guys, so maybe the comparison is apt.
I just have a bachelor's, these thoughts are way above my pay grade...
That was WAY too easy...
It is also safe to say that after reading this article, an average voter would have lost interest in the first few sentences, wiped the drool from the corner of their mouth, and gone back to finding porn site passwords.
Of course I can only speak for myself...
Consider yourself served.
I was waiting for a frame with Leela from Futurama in the background saying "This is, by a wide margin, the least likeliest thing to have happened."
This is proof. Too many Japanese people have drawing talent.
I have several purpose built DamnSmall Linuxum ISO's I use for testing myself. But my point was that Go has not needed the PC, much less a virtual PC for several thousand years. Therefore, I found your the proposed VMware solution amusing.
Xiu Xiu.
A jumbo jet seats about 300-400 people. Cars kill tens of thousands of people each year in the US alone.
Perhaps you meant a "day" instead of a "year"?
Boot an OS, to bootstrap a VMware virtual machine, to boot Linux, to play a game that has been played for almost 6000 years without a computer.
Talk about an ob hack! You might as well have the language set to Mandarin and a run Perl based interface to babelfish the translating for you real time...
VMware kicks ass, but I am throwing a yellow flag, and calling you 15 yards for inappropriately complex use of otherwise good software.
Wait... I know, Boot XP and run a Win2k session with a copy of VMware running a linux session, with a copy of VMware mounting the iso of a virtual GO game... First buy 3GB of RAM...
The thing about Chinese Virus Scanners. After an hour you are still infected and need to scan again.
It has been empirically demonstrated that a sufficiently enclosed, self contained reactor, can sustain a criticality event without causing death or damage to the surrounding area. Like the Three Mile Island disaster in this country. Check out this map In that event, no radiation released because we require a multilayered steel and concrete dome be put on top of the core BEFORE the accident (unlike the steel, concrete, and dolomite monstrosity that brave (now dead) pilots poured onto a burning graphite fire at Chernobyl)
Unless there are more dead dionsaurs and diatoms than we thought, nuclear energy is the answer till fusion comes along. If these port-a-nukes are at all safe AND cheap, then they are a huge step forward.
But we refuse to see it in this country thanks to Three Mile Island and Jane "China Syndrome" Fonda. Anti-Nuker's respond to this: To oppose nuclear power is to support the long term health effects of exposure to Coal and Oil fired power plant poison. MERCURY HAS NO HALF LIFE.
Yet the plants we do have, 103 of them in 31 states, produce 20% of our electricity requirements.
At Chernobyl, in the worst possible nuclear accident, in the worst possible place, with the worst possible safegauards, staffing, and reaction to the crisis:
31 people died (most of them heroically) on site at the time of the accident
after all this time, only 10 deaths from thyroid cancer can be attributed to this accident.
We should be producing these port-a-nukes and putting them 2500 feet underground with wires sticking out every 500sq miles in this country!
Or we could wait till gas hits 5 dollars per gallon like in Europe.
I bet if we had over 100% electrical capacity covered by non-oil, non-coal fired power plants, all of our lives would be better.
And our Middle East foreign policy would be greatly improved if they didn't have anything we wanted. Things aren't going well at the negotiating table? Screw house of Saud and walk away.
In that context, what Middle Eastern country would want to be a "state sponsor of terroism."
We shouldn't be giving this stuff away to countries until all of our needs are met here. At best, they will only hate us slightly less for patronizing them.
Are we somehow obligated to prop up their governmental "bad ideas" while we fail to deal with our own? Why, cause we have money? Tell Bill Gates that he is required to buy lemonade from my kid because, relative to him, my family is "disadvantged." AND he should do it till he is poor and I am not.
Mod me troll, I am still right.
When something has trule achieved a level of a commodity, the only thing left is branding. Look at toothpaste. If Crest didn't spend megabucks on advertising they would be up a creek.
OSS would not fare well if the only thing between a particular GUI and consumer acceptance is Microsoft's Marketing Machine. They only trump card OSS has is that it is free... but price does not always trump branding. Generic beer anyone?
Desktops have to have some "sexiness" that is a diferrentiating factor between them and all other desktops. Macs and their various OS incarnations have always been an example of this.
I conceed your point that the core widgets (buttons, windows, scroll bars) will tend towards commoditization when you are dealing with certain given's (like a keyboard, a 2d mouse interface and a monitor based presentation system). However, that doesn't change the fact that "fins" are important, even when they might suck and represent only an incremental change.
Since we own the license to "consume" the content, so if we back it up we are fine. If the value of the information is high enough that we rip it to MP3 and share it with the universe, then that should be fine too. The first use is legal, the second is not. That does not change the fact that digital content is a meme that will resist all efforts to contain it.
If, as the story says, they are being denied access to the site on the grounds that they are not professional Egyptologists, how did they find out all of the information they base their theory on?
Did they use some Star Trek Sensor array from high above the surface of the earth?
This will let you have a low power, low overhead MP3/DVD player, post BIOS, pre Boot. I will bet you money you can't use it when Windows is in charge.
Ouch. A hit sir, a palpable hit.
Somebody rewrite it in the same ouvre that Caroll O'Connor used so effectively in "All In The Family"
"Awww geeeez! Don't open that email you meathead!"
They invented the stuff, let us use it.
(I'm just pissed that they will always be able to hold that "saved the world from hitler" thing over us for eternity.)
People are getting arrested for wearing body paint with advertising at the olympics, how soon before an idea like this devolves entirely into spam.
"My car gets fourty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it"
So if I use DVDShrink or a similar tool to easily and quickly duplicate or resample DVD's then Julia Roberts goes homeless and has to sell herself for scratch tickets?
I like those odds!
I hope to hell they plan on letting some of the sim girl's virtual rewards link directly to the Japanese School Girl Soiled Panty Vending machines so you can hear the sound of one hand clapping here in "meatspace."
If you don't want FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (4 or 5), or the OS2 thingy, aren't you out of luck? How would you even install it? Much less mount it, format it, or take advantage of it.
I am not being facetious either, I really want to know