holy fsck! I read that and thought there must be a catch, Apple folks can't be that slow? TFA doesn't seem to indicate anything different.
Does anyone have ready-to-hand details on the patent application. There is obvious prior art, and locking out developers just doesn't seem overtly good business practice.
Your joke is exactly why I'm starting to play with Vyatta http://www.vyatta.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyatta to get away from the alphabet soup of groups that want to know what happens inside my home without my knowledge. Performance is pretty good for small office/home networks and leaves you quite a few options if playing with computers is your hobby.
Technical matters begin to pale when some 20+ percent of users will give you their login credentials and personal information for free chocolates or a *chance* to win a trip to Paris.
If nearly a quarter will risk identity theft for trinkets, imagine what they would think of having real security processes.
I'd say that MS/Novel have their work cut out for them. As soon as they start telling people in China that OSS and GNU/Linux are good products they will instantly have competition from at least two localized Linux distributions. I am not too certain that Chinese (who obviously won't or don't pay for software licenses at a MS pleasing rate) are not going to be too thrilled to pay for support of something that is not giving them exceptional value to start with, in comparison to other products freely available.
Unfortunately, while this problem is finally getting the attention it deserves, the changes being implemented don't seem to be offering the correct solution. - emphasis mine
Who the hell thinks it's really getting the attention it deserves? Not me. When 'what is your position on patent reform?' becomes a more important question than what color toilet paper Obama uses, or who wears a flag pin, or what happened on some reality tv show, THEN it's getting the attention it deserves.
The USPTO is broken. It's a system that worked quite well back when the phonograph was considered an expensive laboratory toy that would never be of use on the commercial market.
If only they would go to some kind of system like a social news aggregation site, whose patrons were engineers, scientists etc. and other professions and titles that exclude anyone selling ID as science. Then as a last step before granting the patent it would get sort of peer reviewed. IMO that would stop BS patents and trolls can be stopped by changing requirements of patent holders to something like radio spectrum licenses. If you don't use it, you lose it. If you sue someone with the patent and cannot show that you have done anything with it yourself: automatic jail time.
Redefine non-obvious to exclude anything that is a natural extension of another technology, and anything that is specifically in the public interest. (thinking of MS's patents on using a computer to connect to emergency services over a phone line)
Not just cancers, lets go all the way to genetic mutations.
Where is the information on studies for this technology relating to Alzheimers, diabetes, melanoma, and well... just about any common diseases. I haven't seen it. All I've seen is radiation dosages for healthy humans.
Sure, some stuff won't kill you and is voluntary such as cellular phones. This is not voluntary. Just because it won't kill you, or cause you to mutate inside the airport does NOT mean that it does no harm. There are no long term studies of exposure to this radiation for normal folk, never mind those with medical problems already. I don't think it's actually FDA approved.
To put a finer point on it, and try to keep it all on topic, at least within the scope of my comment's original intent:
Exploit the solar system: like big oil has done for the Earth. This is not a good thing for the average joe.
Space tourism has not been successful so far. I didn't say it couldn't be. Competition is always good... well, unless you consider that the big oil companies are competing? They are ALL making obscene profits at our expense. These are not the companies that I want competing for the resources of the solar system.
I don't blame Monsanto for failed societies, rather I offer up what Monsanto could have been and done but didn't. We now have GM foods but they are generating money through lawsuits not saving people from starving. The ideology is wrong in the case of Monsanto, and the rest of the globe helped to make it that way.
ROFLMAO, you beat me to it. I was just wondering what service would be like. Just what can you steal? There are probably not too many Brits laughing. They have to register their bloody televisions.
Mind you, they get a nice return on that, or used to. Not sure how good BBC programming is these days but I'm willing to wager that it has any of the major American networks beat hands down. I know there are those that like to watch television commercials, but then again, there are people that like reality television too. Go figure.
When I was growing up (rumor has it that I have not done so yet) I read all kinds of Science Fiction books. This was before the intarwebnets and WiFi. Now, more and more, I find that I am living in one of those worlds that were known only science fiction fans.
This sounds like an attempt to sell Russian made equipment, or the beginnings of it. Ahhhh government regulation: an attempt by the ruling to create criminals of those who are not.
Fortunately, in most of the rest of the world WiFi devices have been given rather loose regulation to allow the development of Wireless services and functionality.
In countries where there is no major wired infrastructure it builds revenue streams if you have to be licensed and regulated to do the work. No PC/WiFi entrepreneurs for Russia... sigh! God forbid that Russians actually communicate easily with the rest of the world.
Personally, this makes me sad. Check http://www.englishrussia.com/ and have a peer inside what the rest of us have only just begun to appreciate and understand. The Internet is fucking awesome. I'm sad that there are restrictions on it for Russians, and Chinese for that matter.
I second this motion. Can we bring to a vote the matter of incompetence in the ISO voting procedures? Not just because this is about OOXML, but because it is so obviously filled with discontent and deceit.
In most other situations we would call for a 'do over' or call it a false start or some other phrase that describe how wrong and generally unfair it was.
I'm not really seeing the problem with that. Personally, I think that if politicians and world leaders (I'm looking at you over there in the Whitehouse) could stop their idiocy and work together on a few things, we might find resources (not jut money) to do things like exploit^H^H^H^Hore the solar system a bit, perhaps go finding things like more room to live, more minerals, and perhaps some mysterious substance that helps us to manage global climate change.
The more that we all sit here on this rock arguing about stupid stuff, the longer the Borg has to get here before we are ready, god damnit!
Seriously, the more we learn about space, the solar system, universe etc. the more prepared we will be to better care for this little rock we call home. I do not believe that there is any one country that has the resources to do this alone. I believe it will take huge cooperative efforts to find the answers that humankind actually needs.
Right now we are starving people for the chance to make weak fuel out of corn. When you look at the facts of biofuel, it seems astoundingly stupid to do what we are doing as a group. I think that if we are going to find something that will help serve our energy needs we will have to keep exploring. Only through exploration do we find things that change life as we know it.
Sadly, if Vladimir Smith found out how to create a zero point module (go Stargate) next week, it would be kept a secret and not released to the public until some whistle-blower feels guilty on their deathbed. ZPMs and other such 'free energy' systems/devices and those that do not make anyone any money will be hidden from sight. A sad fact, and not to seem socialist but if we don't all try cooperation to solve some of the very urgent problems, Armageddon sans god is all that is left us. Nuclear energy might become safer with new discoveries lately, and I'm all for it. If you are not using it, safety and discoveries to make it safer are hardly on the radar of those who need to be inventing stuff like that. With nearly free electricity we can carry on with electric vehicles.
The space agencies around the globe really need to work together as has been shown, space tourism really isn't going to foot the bill for the kind of exploration that we need to be doing.
Solar and wind power are not THE answer to the energy needs of the human race and the planet Earth. We need to expand technologically beyond what we have so far. Look at Monsanto? GM foods and people are still starving around the globe. If we don't get some socialist ideas in action soon, we're headed for a scifi nightmare ending. Space exploration thus far has embodied all that is generally good in humankind: Exploration, advancement, betterment, working for the common good. Even if it was a space race for bragging rights or dominance of the domain, it was done in a way that has helped us all in one way or another. We need much more of it.
Yes, you can believe the book "The day after Roswell" http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067101756Xif you like, but the way that space exploration has changed our lives is without comparison. I hope that this is one thing that we, as the human race, end up getting right.
Uhmmmm, since I'm the tedious nerd with unimaginative, phony, and downright sheeplike sense of humor, perhaps you'd like to explain what is news about the smoke and mirrors that is the new iPhone?
Speculation has already started on what exact second it will be released. Betting pools have started on which Hollywood star will be the first to sport the new iPhone. Industry pundits have already covered > 99% of all possible news angles regarding the release of the new iPhone, and yet people mindlessly drivel on about it's feature set, real or desired.
Today men died in Iraq, but we are worried if fucking Obama wears a flag pin or what colors the damned iPhone will be available in.
How's that for sense of humor.
Go ahead and mod this troll, it's damn well meant to be, for the AC who posts insults and can't even use his/her own name. hmmmm
Out of curiosity, how does that statement make me a foreigner? What country do you think I am from? I'm truly interested in how writing styles or indeed simple phrasing can be used to determine where I am from.
This is one of the reasons that material/websites are listed as inaccurate sources of data. Rounding is good when you are talking about 1.300056000 billion dollars as 1.3billion. But in the case of simple math that the reader can do on their own rather quickly, it is imprudent to do any rounding.
A professional news reporter would know that there have been trouble with the US space program regarding conversions to and from metric units. Therefore it is professionally prudent to make sure you are not lumped in with the same idiots who made those mistakes.
It's not that hard, really. Such things are the stuff of journalism classes from the 50's or sooner. How not to look like an idiot when reporting the news!
Yes, and that whole show included numbers about how much the child porn industry is worth... WTF? If they already know how much it's worth, why do they need to monitor it even more?
I am seriously hoping that anonymous begins to get rather political toward November. It would just make me happy to see masked people picketing courthouses with signs that tell everyone how senator so-and-so can't count, or has close ties with felons, or whatever... just some signs showing the sins of those who would have our votes.
I think that is the only effective way to use a smear campaign, and I think that it should be done.
Just observing the Internet and then reading this... just wow.
Good data is HARD to find ANY FUCKING WHERE, never mind limiting your search to just online. Seriously!
News online? read the same story from 8 sources, form your own opinion. MSM sucks worse.
Scientific data? Well, unless it's peer reviewed, you know it's probably suspect and need to verify it with other data. Damn, even peer reviewed scientific data should be compared to other data these days.
How about Encyclopedic data.. There is wikipedia, but make sure to corroborate the data, right?
Read it in a blog? Check the data before you make up your mind.
Hmmmm this sounds a lot like trying to find good data before the Internets were active. Damn, all that data is proffered up by humans... Humans are not infallible so I'm guessing that data provided by humans is going to be a bit 'not infallible' also.
Where does the assumption that data online should be good data come from? wtf?
Absolutely. I would opine that anyone that wants to position their services in opposition to MS would have to cater to all competitive products.
MS has left some holes in the application portfolio of the Mac user. Sure there are alternatives, but there are also holes to exploit there.
If you can happily get your products to work on any OS, and happily network with any OS, you will find a sweet spot. (Note: this prognostication is FOC)
I believe that as reported in some trade press articles, Windows is running out of steam. Not much reason to upgrade to Vista till XP support is denied to you. NOW is THE time to begin cobbling together the alternate answer to a windows IT environment. YearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop is here, and if IBM and Sun are trying to position themselves to catch what falls off the MS wagon in the next three years, it will be an interesting time.
A damned good question. Could changing magnetic fields of the Earth and the Sun be the cause of the bee syndrome that is killing some 30% of all commercial bees in North America?
Bees, like birds, just don't seem to get lost very often... until now. There seems to be no practical explanation of why the bees are disappearing. This might do it. Given that bees are smaller, perhaps the effects are greater on bees? Did the article give any clue as to how the volume of chemical might affect the interactions?
Quite interesting. Given the story of evolution, and knowing that many animals use electromagnetic and quantum type navigation, how likely is it that humans have some similar capabilities?
Not to get too whacked, but does any of this go anywhere toward explaining ghosts etc?
The REAL question is where did the RIAA's lawyers get the heart from? They are showing it off in court now! They are going to sue this homeless guy, guy won't show for court, will be found in contempt, thrown in jail where he will now have free food and a safe place to sleep!!
Yes, MS gets to look like they are playing nice nice with F/OSS by supporting SMB, but in the long run it means they don't have to develop anything to keep working along side *nix systems in the data center.
This is a win/win for MS, if I were them I'd do it too.
Note: if NFS would support Windows networking, I'd use it too. Till then, I'm happy with SMB and use it at home and work.
Exactly what he said AND think about it, if you or I go into a court representing ourselves and are sloppy.... well, the court normally does not look favorably upon people who waste the court's time with 'sloppy' actions.
Having said that, court systems 'seem' to be the daytime hangout of a rather large boy's club in many places around the country. The lawyer defending you probably plays golf with either the judge or your opponents lawyer, or both!
IANAL, but I've had happy hour beers with a few. Sloppy is what you do when you think the court will be benevolent toward your actions. If the court has a reputation for seriousness and crossing-tees-dotting-eyes behavior, sloppy is NOT what you do.
Personally, you and I know that the judge in this case has heard about the stories of the **AA's actions around the country. It would be professionally negligent to not have been following those stories. So, to give them any slack when they are sloppy and wasting court time and resources is tantamount to saying "plaintiff wins, next case!"
I seriously don't think this homeless guy has a snowball's chance in hell.
as long as the ISP is paying me to download their ads. If I'm on the connection for 5 hours per week average, and using an average of 22kbps for that 5 hours, and it costs me about 11 dollars per week for service.
22 x (5x60x60=18000) = 396000 kb
if they force me to download one 75kB ad per page, say once per min. that would be (5x60x75x8=180000 bits or 180kb)
180 kb / 396000 kb = 0.0454545% OR $0.50 per week.
That would mean lowering my bill by an estimated average of $2.00 per month.
For that to happen requires three things:
1 - Agreement that they are using MY bandwidth 2 - That this bandwidth has some value as shown 3 - That they should pay me for it.
Once we start bartering for the actual value of my time to look at their ads... well, my time is expensive, especially when you are using MY bandwidth.
So, if you want to force me to look at your ads I will damned well expect a service fee of $5/month total cost for my internet connection.
Guess that will never happen so the other option is NO MORE FUCKING ADS, thank you very much.
NOW we know why some ISP's are claiming that some people use too much bandwidth? Perhaps this whole who uses what bandwidth should be reviewed with some transparency for the public.
That's just poor business. WTF ever happened to 'service is king' in American business? If you provide a damned good service people will be willing to pay damned good money. ?????
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holy fsck! I read that and thought there must be a catch, Apple folks can't be that slow? TFA doesn't seem to indicate anything different.
Does anyone have ready-to-hand details on the patent application. There is obvious prior art, and locking out developers just doesn't seem overtly good business practice.
Your joke is exactly why I'm starting to play with Vyatta http://www.vyatta.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyatta to get away from the alphabet soup of groups that want to know what happens inside my home without my knowledge. Performance is pretty good for small office/home networks and leaves you quite a few options if playing with computers is your hobby.
Technical matters begin to pale when some 20+ percent of users will give you their login credentials and personal information for free chocolates or a *chance* to win a trip to Paris.
If nearly a quarter will risk identity theft for trinkets, imagine what they would think of having real security processes.
One of the blogs/links to the story is: http://valleywag.com/381102/for-a-womans-password-offer-chocolate-for-a-mans-try-porn
That building momentum step you mention is one HUGE assumption. You have heard of Redflag Linux? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
I'd say that MS/Novel have their work cut out for them. As soon as they start telling people in China that OSS and GNU/Linux are good products they will instantly have competition from at least two localized Linux distributions. I am not too certain that Chinese (who obviously won't or don't pay for software licenses at a MS pleasing rate) are not going to be too thrilled to pay for support of something that is not giving them exceptional value to start with, in comparison to other products freely available.
Who the hell thinks it's really getting the attention it deserves? Not me. When 'what is your position on patent reform?' becomes a more important question than what color toilet paper Obama uses, or who wears a flag pin, or what happened on some reality tv show, THEN it's getting the attention it deserves.
The USPTO is broken. It's a system that worked quite well back when the phonograph was considered an expensive laboratory toy that would never be of use on the commercial market.
If only they would go to some kind of system like a social news aggregation site, whose patrons were engineers, scientists etc. and other professions and titles that exclude anyone selling ID as science. Then as a last step before granting the patent it would get sort of peer reviewed. IMO that would stop BS patents and trolls can be stopped by changing requirements of patent holders to something like radio spectrum licenses. If you don't use it, you lose it. If you sue someone with the patent and cannot show that you have done anything with it yourself: automatic jail time.
Redefine non-obvious to exclude anything that is a natural extension of another technology, and anything that is specifically in the public interest. (thinking of MS's patents on using a computer to connect to emergency services over a phone line)
sigh
Not just cancers, lets go all the way to genetic mutations.
Where is the information on studies for this technology relating to Alzheimers, diabetes, melanoma, and well... just about any common diseases. I haven't seen it. All I've seen is radiation dosages for healthy humans.
Sure, some stuff won't kill you and is voluntary such as cellular phones. This is not voluntary. Just because it won't kill you, or cause you to mutate inside the airport does NOT mean that it does no harm. There are no long term studies of exposure to this radiation for normal folk, never mind those with medical problems already. I don't think it's actually FDA approved.
To put a finer point on it, and try to keep it all on topic, at least within the scope of my comment's original intent:
Exploit the solar system: like big oil has done for the Earth. This is not a good thing for the average joe.
Space tourism has not been successful so far. I didn't say it couldn't be. Competition is always good... well, unless you consider that the big oil companies are competing? They are ALL making obscene profits at our expense. These are not the companies that I want competing for the resources of the solar system.
I don't blame Monsanto for failed societies, rather I offer up what Monsanto could have been and done but didn't. We now have GM foods but they are generating money through lawsuits not saving people from starving. The ideology is wrong in the case of Monsanto, and the rest of the globe helped to make it that way.
And the US version of Eastenders is the Sopranos, which is also on more than it should be :)
ROFLMAO, you beat me to it. I was just wondering what service would be like. Just what can you steal? There are probably not too many Brits laughing. They have to register their bloody televisions.
Mind you, they get a nice return on that, or used to. Not sure how good BBC programming is these days but I'm willing to wager that it has any of the major American networks beat hands down. I know there are those that like to watch television commercials, but then again, there are people that like reality television too. Go figure.
When I was growing up (rumor has it that I have not done so yet) I read all kinds of Science Fiction books. This was before the intarwebnets and WiFi. Now, more and more, I find that I am living in one of those worlds that were known only science fiction fans.
This sounds like an attempt to sell Russian made equipment, or the beginnings of it. Ahhhh government regulation: an attempt by the ruling to create criminals of those who are not.
Fortunately, in most of the rest of the world WiFi devices have been given rather loose regulation to allow the development of Wireless services and functionality.
In countries where there is no major wired infrastructure it builds revenue streams if you have to be licensed and regulated to do the work. No PC/WiFi entrepreneurs for Russia... sigh! God forbid that Russians actually communicate easily with the rest of the world.
Personally, this makes me sad. Check http://www.englishrussia.com/ and have a peer inside what the rest of us have only just begun to appreciate and understand. The Internet is fucking awesome. I'm sad that there are restrictions on it for Russians, and Chinese for that matter.
I second this motion. Can we bring to a vote the matter of incompetence in the ISO voting procedures? Not just because this is about OOXML, but because it is so obviously filled with discontent and deceit.
In most other situations we would call for a 'do over' or call it a false start or some other phrase that describe how wrong and generally unfair it was.
Time for a do-over rule.
I'm not really seeing the problem with that. Personally, I think that if politicians and world leaders (I'm looking at you over there in the Whitehouse) could stop their idiocy and work together on a few things, we might find resources (not jut money) to do things like exploit^H^H^H^Hore the solar system a bit, perhaps go finding things like more room to live, more minerals, and perhaps some mysterious substance that helps us to manage global climate change.
The more that we all sit here on this rock arguing about stupid stuff, the longer the Borg has to get here before we are ready, god damnit!
Seriously, the more we learn about space, the solar system, universe etc. the more prepared we will be to better care for this little rock we call home. I do not believe that there is any one country that has the resources to do this alone. I believe it will take huge cooperative efforts to find the answers that humankind actually needs.
Right now we are starving people for the chance to make weak fuel out of corn. When you look at the facts of biofuel, it seems astoundingly stupid to do what we are doing as a group. I think that if we are going to find something that will help serve our energy needs we will have to keep exploring. Only through exploration do we find things that change life as we know it.
Sadly, if Vladimir Smith found out how to create a zero point module (go Stargate) next week, it would be kept a secret and not released to the public until some whistle-blower feels guilty on their deathbed. ZPMs and other such 'free energy' systems/devices and those that do not make anyone any money will be hidden from sight. A sad fact, and not to seem socialist but if we don't all try cooperation to solve some of the very urgent problems, Armageddon sans god is all that is left us. Nuclear energy might become safer with new discoveries lately, and I'm all for it. If you are not using it, safety and discoveries to make it safer are hardly on the radar of those who need to be inventing stuff like that. With nearly free electricity we can carry on with electric vehicles.
The space agencies around the globe really need to work together as has been shown, space tourism really isn't going to foot the bill for the kind of exploration that we need to be doing.
Solar and wind power are not THE answer to the energy needs of the human race and the planet Earth. We need to expand technologically beyond what we have so far. Look at Monsanto? GM foods and people are still starving around the globe. If we don't get some socialist ideas in action soon, we're headed for a scifi nightmare ending. Space exploration thus far has embodied all that is generally good in humankind: Exploration, advancement, betterment, working for the common good. Even if it was a space race for bragging rights or dominance of the domain, it was done in a way that has helped us all in one way or another. We need much more of it.
Yes, you can believe the book "The day after Roswell" http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067101756Xif you like, but the way that space exploration has changed our lives is without comparison. I hope that this is one thing that we, as the human race, end up getting right.
Uhmmmm, since I'm the tedious nerd with unimaginative, phony, and downright sheeplike sense of humor, perhaps you'd like to explain what is news about the smoke and mirrors that is the new iPhone?
Speculation has already started on what exact second it will be released. Betting pools have started on which Hollywood star will be the first to sport the new iPhone. Industry pundits have already covered > 99% of all possible news angles regarding the release of the new iPhone, and yet people mindlessly drivel on about it's feature set, real or desired.
Today men died in Iraq, but we are worried if fucking Obama wears a flag pin or what colors the damned iPhone will be available in.
How's that for sense of humor.
Go ahead and mod this troll, it's damn well meant to be, for the AC who posts insults and can't even use his/her own name. hmmmm
MS has released a new screen saver for the zune: A chair flying across the screen smashing into an iPhone
I hope that someone with points mods your comment funny... nearly brought tears to my eyes.
Out of curiosity, how does that statement make me a foreigner? What country do you think I am from? I'm truly interested in how writing styles or indeed simple phrasing can be used to determine where I am from.
This is one of the reasons that material/websites are listed as inaccurate sources of data. Rounding is good when you are talking about 1.300056000 billion dollars as 1.3billion. But in the case of simple math that the reader can do on their own rather quickly, it is imprudent to do any rounding.
A professional news reporter would know that there have been trouble with the US space program regarding conversions to and from metric units. Therefore it is professionally prudent to make sure you are not lumped in with the same idiots who made those mistakes.
It's not that hard, really. Such things are the stuff of journalism classes from the 50's or sooner. How not to look like an idiot when reporting the news!
Yes, and that whole show included numbers about how much the child porn industry is worth... WTF? If they already know how much it's worth, why do they need to monitor it even more?
I am seriously hoping that anonymous begins to get rather political toward November. It would just make me happy to see masked people picketing courthouses with signs that tell everyone how senator so-and-so can't count, or has close ties with felons, or whatever... just some signs showing the sins of those who would have our votes.
I think that is the only effective way to use a smear campaign, and I think that it should be done.
Just observing the Internet and then reading this ... just wow.
Good data is HARD to find ANY FUCKING WHERE, never mind limiting your search to just online. Seriously!
News online? read the same story from 8 sources, form your own opinion. MSM sucks worse.
Scientific data? Well, unless it's peer reviewed, you know it's probably suspect and need to verify it with other data. Damn, even peer reviewed scientific data should be compared to other data these days.
How about Encyclopedic data.. There is wikipedia, but make sure to corroborate the data, right?
Read it in a blog? Check the data before you make up your mind.
Hmmmm this sounds a lot like trying to find good data before the Internets were active. Damn, all that data is proffered up by humans... Humans are not infallible so I'm guessing that data provided by humans is going to be a bit 'not infallible' also.
Where does the assumption that data online should be good data come from? wtf?
Absolutely. I would opine that anyone that wants to position their services in opposition to MS would have to cater to all competitive products.
MS has left some holes in the application portfolio of the Mac user. Sure there are alternatives, but there are also holes to exploit there.
If you can happily get your products to work on any OS, and happily network with any OS, you will find a sweet spot. (Note: this prognostication is FOC)
I believe that as reported in some trade press articles, Windows is running out of steam. Not much reason to upgrade to Vista till XP support is denied to you. NOW is THE time to begin cobbling together the alternate answer to a windows IT environment. YearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop is here, and if IBM and Sun are trying to position themselves to catch what falls off the MS wagon in the next three years, it will be an interesting time.
I read that and got visions of Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" movie...
I'm all on board. Will start practicing my adding machine skills to be sure to get hired before that building leaves port.
Glad it's not just me that read the summary and started laughing loudly at work.
A damned good question. Could changing magnetic fields of the Earth and the Sun be the cause of the bee syndrome that is killing some 30% of all commercial bees in North America?
Bees, like birds, just don't seem to get lost very often... until now. There seems to be no practical explanation of why the bees are disappearing. This might do it. Given that bees are smaller, perhaps the effects are greater on bees? Did the article give any clue as to how the volume of chemical might affect the interactions?
Quite interesting. Given the story of evolution, and knowing that many animals use electromagnetic and quantum type navigation, how likely is it that humans have some similar capabilities?
Not to get too whacked, but does any of this go anywhere toward explaining ghosts etc?
All good stuff
The REAL question is where did the RIAA's lawyers get the heart from? They are showing it off in court now! They are going to sue this homeless guy, guy won't show for court, will be found in contempt, thrown in jail where he will now have free food and a safe place to sleep!!
What are these RIAA lawyers thinking? WTF!
Yes, MS gets to look like they are playing nice nice with F/OSS by supporting SMB, but in the long run it means they don't have to develop anything to keep working along side *nix systems in the data center.
This is a win/win for MS, if I were them I'd do it too.
Note: if NFS would support Windows networking, I'd use it too. Till then, I'm happy with SMB and use it at home and work.
Exactly what he said AND think about it, if you or I go into a court representing ourselves and are sloppy.... well, the court normally does not look favorably upon people who waste the court's time with 'sloppy' actions.
Having said that, court systems 'seem' to be the daytime hangout of a rather large boy's club in many places around the country. The lawyer defending you probably plays golf with either the judge or your opponents lawyer, or both!
IANAL, but I've had happy hour beers with a few. Sloppy is what you do when you think the court will be benevolent toward your actions. If the court has a reputation for seriousness and crossing-tees-dotting-eyes behavior, sloppy is NOT what you do.
Personally, you and I know that the judge in this case has heard about the stories of the **AA's actions around the country. It would be professionally negligent to not have been following those stories. So, to give them any slack when they are sloppy and wasting court time and resources is tantamount to saying "plaintiff wins, next case!"
I seriously don't think this homeless guy has a snowball's chance in hell.
as long as the ISP is paying me to download their ads. If I'm on the connection for 5 hours per week average, and using an average of 22kbps for that 5 hours, and it costs me about 11 dollars per week for service.
22 x (5x60x60=18000) = 396000 kb
if they force me to download one 75kB ad per page, say once per min. that would be (5x60x75x8=180000 bits or 180kb)
180 kb / 396000 kb = 0.0454545% OR $0.50 per week.
That would mean lowering my bill by an estimated average of $2.00 per month.
For that to happen requires three things:
1 - Agreement that they are using MY bandwidth
2 - That this bandwidth has some value as shown
3 - That they should pay me for it.
Once we start bartering for the actual value of my time to look at their ads... well, my time is expensive, especially when you are using MY bandwidth.
So, if you want to force me to look at your ads I will damned well expect a service fee of $5/month total cost for my internet connection.
Guess that will never happen so the other option is NO MORE FUCKING ADS, thank you very much.
NOW we know why some ISP's are claiming that some people use too much bandwidth? Perhaps this whole who uses what bandwidth should be reviewed with some transparency for the public.
That's just poor business. WTF ever happened to 'service is king' in American business? If you provide a damned good service people will be willing to pay damned good money. ?????