And there I think you hit on an interesting problem. Google.com is the sole owner|caretaker of many many many millions of manhours of human contribution to this great experiment we call the 'Net. I guess I just fear for the solvency of the Usenet past when google is no more.
I wish I had hundreds of terabytes to maintain a copy:-)
And those aren't the same people who vote today? Who only make decisions "along party lines" or based on some ad-hominem attacks in TV commercials? Please. We've already got those people. Let's give the rest of us real convenience, thank-you-very-much.:-)
I wonder if the real answer is that AMD will recode the Opteron with a code engine that can execute big-endian PPC ops? (Is the Mac still big-endian?)
AKA Transmeta, with all the performance of the AMD64 engine. It'd be a good move for Apple, since they'll get a top-of-the-line 64bit CPU that actually has some vendor turnover. And if it's simply a matter of altering the instruction decoder... With the performance gap between current Mac's and this new CPU, even a small performance lost doing instruction translation will mean a much faster Mac platform.
And if the comment about Apple and Hypertransport is true, that makes it all the more POSSIBLE (however highly improbable?).
Not if you have the appropriate liability coverage.:-) The whole "corporate veil" thing has been quite thoroughly destroyed, methinks, when it comes right down to it, thanks to Enron and Andersen Consulting. The veil was created to protect officers and board members and stockholders particularly from the actions caused by employees and bad product.
I honestly view it as a useful thing, but a court will pierce the corporate veil if it feels negligence or actual crimes were being committed.
So always carry coverage. Even as a homeowner, this is a smart thing to do. Can't imagine the hell you'll get into if the neighbors kid bashes his head open on your prize rock garden...:-)
I would advise anyone starting out to NOT become a C-Corp, because you automatically have to have workers comp. insurance (which if you're smart, and are the only employeee, is useless compared to the normal LTD you'd purchase to cover your ass).
Fact is, first thing you do when you go into business is contact an attorney. Don't call Slashdot.:-)
That is correct if you are incorporating, in which case the bank will typically require the corporation resolution opening said bank account, with all the board-members signatures.
It typically does NOT apply for partnerships or sole proprietorships.
In Massachusetts, I paid $5 to register with my town clerk. They asked a series of questions: zone: residential business type: software traffic: occasional customer visits, 3-20 cars per week.
Really? Isn't that the equivalent of saying that: You can't live here cuz you're black?
Although I suppose if you sign a contract stipulating it... Can you do that? I mean, it's illegal for lessors of apartments to discriminate in such a fashion, why shouldn't it be illegal for HOA's?
You have a point, you trade maintenance for performance, true... But experience has taught me that compilers are NOT usually as sophisticated or as smart as the vendors say they are, hence knowing such tricks, and being able to use them when the optimizer falls apart on you, makes for a better programmer than the guy who says, "Sorry boss, can't run the optimizer on that code, it breaks the compiler, so we'll have to suffer with the performance problem".
Not everyone has to worry about performance issues but in graphics and analytical processing, or any server-side multiuser application, it sure can make life easier.
Microsoft might use its arsenal of patents against Free Software eventually, but they aren't going to target Big Blue.
Considering IBM's proffered $1billion investment in Linux, wielding an arsenal of patents against Linux/apache/etc. is tantamount to taking on IBM. But by the time the case gets tried, the software isn't infringing anymore.
Losing in the final "victory" sense is never a foregone conclusion. Judges are notoriously fickle and biased, and even the jurisdiction the case is filed in can influence the findings in the favor of the plaintiff.
No, what SCO will lose is lots of money. IBM has lots of lawyers and money to drop into this, particularly if they see Linux as a replacement for AIX/OS400. IBM won't want to let Linux die, and burn a billion dollar investment.
That's not necessarily true. At least, not unless AT&T or Novell encumbered the copyrights and patents with particular licensing.
SCO has the right to sue for infringement. Whether or not they win is a completely different matter.
And the fun thing is that SCO can sue it's competitors out of business, and burn all it's money away, go bankrupt and die, and Linux Will STILL Go On(TM). It's unstoppable. Hell, I got at least 30 different distribution CD's from over the years starting with Yggdrassil in 1995. Gigabytes and gigabytes of Linux sources. And I'm just one user...
i'll never understand why it is there are so many things people need to get educated about and get licensed or certified in before they can do them (by law), but any couple of pinheads with functioning genitalia can make a kid... even if they are kids themselves.
No shit?! Christ, you need a license just to fix a damn clogged toilet here in Massachusetts and a permit to build a fucking birdhouse, yet the 15 yo teeny bopper down the street can get knocked up by the entire football team and be a Parent-In-Waiting faster than you can say "Ooops the condom broke"...
I have no answer other than mass sterilization and special egg/sperm breeders and lots of test-tube babies... A 5 year waiting period for a child-license, requiring a mandatory 2 year training course that requires carrying RFID-tagged potatoes around...
You'd have a point if the stalker was breaking into systems and actually, you know... committing a crime. But to make Amazon or Disney or anyone responsible for what a child posts online? Please. Next thing you know, they'll require your ISP's to track and monitor your kids email too...
It's not a crime for me to open your mailbox (or is it, what if I want to leave you a letter?)... It absolutely is a crime to remove contents of said mailbox without your permission. Last I knew parking on the side of the street wasn't illegal. I do it all the time when I get the urge to write prose or take a photograph of something interesting... Hell, I even spend time sleeping in my car (mild narcolepsy). And how about those fools who put their NAMES on their mailboxes and front stoops?
YOU let YOUR KID post on a public WEB-BOARD for the entire world to see (child abductors, rapists and terrorist recruiters galore). Do you really want a world of AOL Acceptable Use Police running the Internet?
I'm just against regulation for regulation's sake, especially when it's really unenforceable.
In my experiments working with a number of online SSL-based financial sites, the ONLY browser that worked 100% of the time on SuSE 7.2 was Mozilla 1.3.
Konqueror just couldn't compete. They have a WAYS to go. But yes, the pop-up blocking is primo!:-)
The ONLY cure for a remote root compromise is a complete reinstall. No matter WHAT the OS. You can not be sure you nailed every last bit of compromised files. Or that there isn't some disk-sector based crap floating around waiting to bite you in the ass...
The last thing I want is for my OS to get a little too amorous with my filesystems... mmap() is perfect as far as I'm concerned... What kinda hell could be wrought if Linux, for example, was allowed to just bring in random pages from say, a ReiserFS partition?
I'd really like to know how NT can do paging, when there's no pagefile? NT (2000|XP) will always attempt to keep the biggest disk cache that it possibly can, even when swapping is turned on, and yes, other programs can suffer for it. However this buffer is always resized depending on system utilization and NEVER goes below a certain size (2MB? 8, I forget the exact number).
Not to sound like an ass or anything, but when, in recent history or memory, have humans evolved? Did you see some dude on the street evolve last week? Did I miss some great evolution event in history class? I'm curious, because if anything, the technological revolution is only going to speed up the rate of introduction of nasty shit into our environment to spur evolution.
But seriously, I'm legitimately curious if there are any documented contemporary events of humans evolving.
Yes, you can drink too much water. Basically if you super-saturate your body with water, you end up leeching out a lot of salts from your cells which can lead to a condition called Hyponatremia. When working outdoors, drinking lots of water, I flavor every second or third liter with a teaspoon of salt.
Wishful thinking, placebo effect, perhaps, but I can tell the difference in how lethargic I get after drinking said water. If I drink 3 liters in a half-hour span with no salt, I start to get a little lightheaded. Throw in a bit of salt, and I feel right normal again. Like I said, could be the placebo effect. I've not tried a double-blind test.:-)
Once upon a time I went from a fairly big, but mostly trim 270 lbs (I was fat, but not obscenely so) to almost 400 lbs in the space of maybe 2 years (obscenely fat). Subsisting mostly on a diet of Coke, Mountain Dew, chips and McDonald's double quarter pounders.
I figured at one point my soda intake alone was nearly one half to one gallon a day. Replacing soda with water, I went from 390 lbs. to 315 in less than five months. Much of which I've put back on since I started drinking soda again (back to 365).
Good God, all you fellow fat-bodies out there. LOSE THE SUGAR!!! You've motivated me to dump, not drink, but dump this Mountain Dew down the sink, and fill it with water in a symbolic gesture of my kicking the soda habit. I did it once, maybe this time I can kick it for good? Thanks, dudes.
Yea, that's the last thing I want to have to do... chroot my WMP player... sheesh...
You got to admit though, DRM issues aside, this is a sea change for Microsoft. Testing the waters, maybe? Because you'd think they'd want to promote Embedded Windows over Linux any day? Little of Microsoft's software development work has been getting THEIR software to work on other platforms...
Is it too much to hope for IE on linux (since it's javascript engine is the only one that works with my online bank)???
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And there I think you hit on an interesting problem. Google.com is the sole owner|caretaker of many many many millions of manhours of human contribution to this great experiment we call the 'Net. I guess I just fear for the solvency of the Usenet past when google is no more.
:-)
I wish I had hundreds of terabytes to maintain a copy
And those aren't the same people who vote today? :-)
Who only make decisions "along party lines" or based on some ad-hominem attacks in TV commercials? Please. We've already got those people. Let's give the rest of us real convenience, thank-you-very-much.
I wonder if the real answer is that AMD will recode the Opteron with a code engine that can execute big-endian PPC ops? (Is the Mac still big-endian?)
AKA Transmeta, with all the performance of the AMD64 engine. It'd be a good move for Apple, since they'll get a top-of-the-line 64bit CPU that actually has some vendor turnover. And if it's simply a matter of altering the instruction decoder... With the performance gap between current Mac's and this new CPU, even a small performance lost doing instruction translation will mean a much faster Mac platform.
And if the comment about Apple and Hypertransport is true, that makes it all the more POSSIBLE (however highly improbable?).
Not if you have the appropriate liability coverage. :-) The whole "corporate veil" thing has been quite thoroughly destroyed, methinks, when it comes right down to it, thanks to Enron and Andersen Consulting. The veil was created to protect officers and board members and stockholders particularly from the actions caused by employees and bad product.
:-)
I honestly view it as a useful thing, but a court will pierce the corporate veil if it feels negligence or actual crimes were being committed.
So always carry coverage. Even as a homeowner, this is a smart thing to do. Can't imagine the hell you'll get into if the neighbors kid bashes his head open on your prize rock garden...
I would advise anyone starting out to NOT become a C-Corp, because you automatically have to have workers comp. insurance (which if you're smart, and are the only employeee, is useless compared to the normal LTD you'd purchase to cover your ass).
:-)
Fact is, first thing you do when you go into business is contact an attorney. Don't call Slashdot.
-Chris
That is correct if you are incorporating, in which case the bank will typically require the corporation resolution opening said bank account, with all the board-members signatures.
It typically does NOT apply for partnerships or sole proprietorships.
In Massachusetts, I paid $5 to register with my town clerk. They asked a series of questions:
zone: residential business type: software traffic: occasional customer visits, 3-20 cars per week.
Granted signed sealed and delivered in 3 minutes.
-Chris
Really? Isn't that the equivalent of saying that: You can't live here cuz you're black?
Although I suppose if you sign a contract stipulating it... Can you do that? I mean, it's illegal for lessors of apartments to discriminate in such a fashion, why shouldn't it be illegal for HOA's?
-Chris
You have a point, you trade maintenance for performance, true... But experience has taught me that compilers are NOT usually as sophisticated or as smart as the vendors say they are, hence knowing such tricks, and being able to use them when the optimizer falls apart on you, makes for a better programmer than the guy who says, "Sorry boss, can't run the optimizer on that code, it breaks the compiler, so we'll have to suffer with the performance problem".
Not everyone has to worry about performance issues but in graphics and analytical processing, or any server-side multiuser application, it sure can make life easier.
Except I would retort that the patent for the Edison Light Bulb expired a LONG time ago... :-)
Considering IBM's proffered $1billion investment in Linux, wielding an arsenal of patents against Linux/apache/etc. is tantamount to taking on IBM. But by the time the case gets tried, the software isn't infringing anymore.
Losing in the final "victory" sense is never a foregone conclusion. Judges are notoriously fickle and biased, and even the jurisdiction the case is filed in can influence the findings in the favor of the plaintiff.
No, what SCO will lose is lots of money. IBM has lots of lawyers and money to drop into this, particularly if they see Linux as a replacement for AIX/OS400. IBM won't want to let Linux die, and burn a billion dollar investment.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-825723.html
That's not necessarily true. At least, not unless AT&T or Novell encumbered the copyrights and patents with particular licensing.
SCO has the right to sue for infringement. Whether or not they win is a completely different matter.
And the fun thing is that SCO can sue it's competitors out of business, and burn all it's money away, go bankrupt and die, and Linux Will STILL Go On(TM). It's unstoppable. Hell, I got at least 30 different distribution CD's from over the years starting with Yggdrassil in 1995. Gigabytes and gigabytes of Linux sources. And I'm just one user...
No shit?! Christ, you need a license just to fix a damn clogged toilet here in Massachusetts and a permit to build a fucking birdhouse, yet the 15 yo teeny bopper down the street can get knocked up by the entire football team and be a Parent-In-Waiting faster than you can say "Ooops the condom broke"...
I have no answer other than mass sterilization and special egg/sperm breeders and lots of test-tube babies... A 5 year waiting period for a child-license, requiring a mandatory 2 year training course that requires carrying RFID-tagged potatoes around...
You'd have a point if the stalker was breaking into systems and actually, you know... committing a crime. But to make Amazon or Disney or anyone responsible for what a child posts online? Please. Next thing you know, they'll require your ISP's to track and monitor your kids email too...
It's not a crime for me to open your mailbox (or is it, what if I want to leave you a letter?)... It absolutely is a crime to remove contents of said mailbox without your permission. Last I knew parking on the side of the street wasn't illegal. I do it all the time when I get the urge to write prose or take a photograph of something interesting... Hell, I even spend time sleeping in my car (mild narcolepsy). And how about those fools who put their NAMES on their mailboxes and front stoops?
YOU let YOUR KID post on a public WEB-BOARD for the entire world to see (child abductors, rapists and terrorist recruiters galore). Do you really want a world of AOL Acceptable Use Police running the Internet?
I'm just against regulation for regulation's sake, especially when it's really unenforceable.
-Chris
Yes, but Konquerors javascript support sucks.
:-)
In my experiments working with a number of online SSL-based financial sites, the ONLY browser that worked 100% of the time on SuSE 7.2 was Mozilla 1.3.
Konqueror just couldn't compete. They have a WAYS to go. But yes, the pop-up blocking is primo!
-Chris
The ONLY cure for a remote root compromise is a complete reinstall. No matter WHAT the OS. You can not be sure you nailed every last bit of compromised files. Or that there isn't some disk-sector based crap floating around waiting to bite you in the ass...
The last thing I want is for my OS to get a little too amorous with my filesystems... mmap() is perfect as far as I'm concerned... What kinda hell could be wrought if Linux, for example, was allowed to just bring in random pages from say, a ReiserFS partition?
I'd really like to know how NT can do paging, when there's no pagefile? NT (2000|XP) will always attempt to keep the biggest disk cache that it possibly can, even when swapping is turned on, and yes, other programs can suffer for it. However this buffer is always resized depending on system utilization and NEVER goes below a certain size (2MB? 8, I forget the exact number).
Not to sound like an ass or anything, but when, in recent history or memory, have humans evolved? Did you see some dude on the street evolve last week? Did I miss some great evolution event in history class? I'm curious, because if anything, the technological revolution is only going to speed up the rate of introduction of nasty shit into our environment to spur evolution.
But seriously, I'm legitimately curious if there are any documented contemporary events of humans evolving.
Yes, you can drink too much water. Basically if you super-saturate your body with water, you end up leeching out a lot of salts from your cells which can lead to a condition called Hyponatremia. When working outdoors, drinking lots of water, I flavor every second or third liter with a teaspoon of salt.
:-)
Wishful thinking, placebo effect, perhaps, but I can tell the difference in how lethargic I get after drinking said water. If I drink 3 liters in a half-hour span with no salt, I start to get a little lightheaded. Throw in a bit of salt, and I feel right normal again. Like I said, could be the placebo effect. I've not tried a double-blind test.
Now, IIRC: you don't convert fat into muscle. You build muscle to burn fat and burn fat to make glucose to build muscle.
Right?
Once upon a time I went from a fairly big, but mostly trim 270 lbs (I was fat, but not obscenely so) to almost 400 lbs in the space of maybe 2 years (obscenely fat). Subsisting mostly on a diet of Coke, Mountain Dew, chips and McDonald's double quarter pounders.
:-)
I figured at one point my soda intake alone was nearly one half to one gallon a day. Replacing soda with water, I went from 390 lbs. to 315 in less than five months. Much of which I've put back on since I started drinking soda again (back to 365).
Good God, all you fellow fat-bodies out there. LOSE THE SUGAR!!! You've motivated me to dump, not drink, but dump this Mountain Dew down the sink, and fill it with water in a symbolic gesture of my kicking the soda habit. I did it once, maybe this time I can kick it for good? Thanks, dudes.
-Chris Kaminski
365 and counting.
Holy shit. A /. post with a detailed bibliography. Quick, someone call Jerry Falwall, Hell just froze over.
Yea, that's the last thing I want to have to do... chroot my WMP player... sheesh...
You got to admit though, DRM issues aside, this is a sea change for Microsoft. Testing the waters, maybe? Because you'd think they'd want to promote Embedded Windows over Linux any day? Little of Microsoft's software development work has been getting THEIR software to work on other platforms...
Is it too much to hope for IE on linux (since it's javascript engine is the only one that works with my online bank)???
Thanks. I discovered as much when I went researching last night. :-)