It's happened before. Look at the Challenger fiasco. Granted, I don't think anyone went to jail for criminal negligence, but it wasn't a "hidden" cause when there were so many whistleblowers. Similar situation to what we have here.
Not to reinforce this guys tripe (because it was tripe), but you're just encouraging him to continue to do so, by giving him attention. Leave the tool unmoderated at 1, and ignore him.
And as much as I love my astronauts, and my country, and my citizens, and my space program (yes, I pay for it, it's mine too!). I don't consider them heroes. Heroes are people who go out every day in do hard things. Those astronauts were recipients of the ultimate social program, the US Military Industrial Complex. Have a "Navy SEAL BUD/S" type lottery for ordinary normal American's like you and me to compete for a seat on those rockets, and I'd consider the astronauts heroes.
I consider them heroes simply for signing up for armed service, and putting their lives on the line for me, not because they strap themselves to 4 million pounds of explosives and metal all built by the lowest bidder.
Some insightful man went into this rant this week on why analogies in arguments are useless. I think you just blew a really big hole in his argument, or you picked REALLY good analogies.:-)
Oh my kingdom for a mod point to give to you... -Chris
Getting a heavy object to sink, and yet still stay bouyant enough to surface is a whole hell of a lot less an engineering challenge than getting a big-ass and extremely robust space vehicle to 200-500 miles ASL. You'll notice that an old Los Angeles class attack submarine, with VERY heavy nuclear power plant ran about $600 million in 1970's dollars, and yet the Shuttle runs about $2-$2.5 billion in 1980's dollars. Hell, even the new Virginia class submarine only costs $2billion in fy2000 dollars and it weighs a LOT more than the Shuttle's 100 someodd tons.
But most submarines don't have to worry about 20,000mph paint flecks and broken satellites flying at them at high speed. The worst external threats they have to worry about are running into ships, other submarines, getting hit with exploding torpedos, and running into terrain.
But that's why we need space elevators. Unfortunately, to have space elevators, we need lightweight chemical/nuclear launchers. And those will ALWAYS be fragile.
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I hate to say it then, why doesn't Slashdot just become a farking NYTimes partner? Oh right, OSDN(VA Software) is still losing money. Nevermind.
I concur with that. The same crap that killed TSR killed RIFTS, IMHO. Too much material, most of it not very good. The good news is that Palladium seems to run a WHOLE lot leaner than TSR ever did, and made the intelligent move of not changing their very popular game mechanics simply to make more money, so I don't see them going away anytime soon. And when you say "I play RIFTS" it doesn't have the same negative connotations as "I played D&D last weekend"... "Oh no, you satanist!!!!"
And now thanks to all those damn hippy vegans, McDonalds fries now suck. First BK, then Mcy-D's... Guess I'll just have to resort to cooking my own fries in my deep-fat fryolator. The trouble I go through for a good-tasting fry... 3rd degree burns, here I come...
Yes, the above was mostly sarcasm. I don't hate vegans, although I do taunt them with meat every chance I get.;-)
-Chris
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I thought it was the fact that modern lambs aren't allowed to MOVE at all, and that's what gives lamb-meat it's delicious and succulent flavor and tenderness.
FTR: I hate veal, but love chops... go figure. -Chris
So $3-6K. I'm presuming a pair of new machines to run the hosts. I know Windows2000 server won't run nearly as well on my BDC hosts as NT 4.0 did. Sorry.
As to your point about NetBIOS, yes, friend, I *DO* know what I'm talking about. I made the nubee error of irrevocably linking NetBIOS and CIFS. My bad.
Whatever happened to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" Emphasis on USEFUL!?
Not just money-grubbing? Even as a photographer who has work published and copyrighted, I'm about at wits end, and say screw the whole thing. No more patents, no more copyrights, no more trademarks. Free for all... (well, trademarks aren't so bad, really, except this whole trademark/domain name thing)
The world got along just fine without patents and copyrights... Why shouldn't it now?
Actually, I think the reason is money. In a down economy, no one is willing to spend $10-20K just to get better manageability of their Windows networks. They'll just foist all that extra work on the already RIF heavy IT department, and make them suffer.
You meant NetBIOS name resolution, I presume, as opposed to actual NetBIOS, because AD doesn't have anything to do with replacing NetBIOS.
Smells like a troll... I meant job as in the capitalistic go to a building or work from home, and collect a paycheck job, not a find your place in your own ecological niche job.
But even that patent has prior art. If you spun around in a normal swing, "one which the seat is in the same plane as the supporting arm from which the two chains are held", and interlocked the chains together, you could do this tarzan swinging as well. I must have home movies of me doing this when I was a kid...
Hell, I bet we can find it in TV and movies from the 60's and 70's if we look hard enough...
Last I knew, you had to pay to even have the filing looked at.
US PTO 2003 Fee Schedule. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ ope/fee2003 0101.htm
Fee Code 37 CFR Description Fee Small Entity Fee (if applicable) 1001/2001 1.16(a) Basic filing fee - Utility 750.00 375.00 1006/2006 1.16(a) Basic filing fee - Utility (CPA) 750.00 375.00 1551/2551 1.20(e) Due at 3.5 years 890.00 445.00 1552/2552 1.20(f) Due at 7.5 years 2,050.00 1,025.00 1553/2553 1.20(g) Due at 11.5 years 3,150.00 1,575.00
So while they make money from renewals, they don't necessarily make money from granting patents. Just the fact of filing an application puts at least $350 in their hands. Hell, I'm all for revised fee schedule:
Corps less than $1m annual revenue: $350 Corps > $1m < $100m: $700 Corps > $100m: $10,000
Even the playing field a little, no?;-) Oh, but I can see all the abuse from shell companies and Enron-esque tactics, so maybe that won't work... Or, "Why punish the successful?" Because they have the resources to continue being successful, while the rest of us are struggling to do so. For a better example, why don't they light super-heavyweights box with welter-weights? Hmmm???
Are you kidding me? MS couldn't pull off a beowulf cluster if they wanted to. Shared Everything clustering is a PITA (necessary sometimes, but still a PITA). And that's all that Microsoft Clustering will do. 4 nodes. No more. Although it DOES work well... with 2 nodes.:-)
Yes, but to Hitler the Jews were subhuman, whereas the people he was fighting were humans in his eyes, deserving of being killed, yes, but not made to suffer like the jews.
Are you trying to say that.NET packaging is easier than.JAR files?
The.NET CLR was designed to support C#, C++, VB, and Foxpro, all of which are languages that Microsoft writes compilers for. The rest is fluff designed to placate the OSS masses. But your point is essentially correct. However, both have been taken quite beyond their design expectations, to support many languages, so it's really a moot point.
No it doesn't, since many of the platforms C is used on don't have a concept of a GUI. It would be nice if the next generation of C/C++ had different levels of compliance.
Standard languge bits templates, keywords etc.
Standard IPC bits
Standard Process Management (.DLL,.EXE, fork() threads, etc).
Standard GUI bits.
And different platforms could adhere to one or other of the levels of support. I mean, it's not as if we don't already have a nasty PITA time trying to figure out if our compiler's template support is broken, or if the STL that shipped from the vendor has flaws in it.
So you're saying that the EULA has been challenged and found not viable? Someone has already commented that in Germany only the bits visible on the box are enforceable, yet I hadn't known that any EULA's had been tested in court. AFAIK, in the U.S., these are still untested waters.
But that would be illegal. Unless of course the EULA has no force in law, which is not exactly something *I'm* willing to try and get overturned. If said vendor is willing to offer a complete and total refund if the EULA is not approved of, then that should have no impact on the viability of say EULA.
You can have whatever license you want on your software. Just don't rip me off trying to sell it. Now what I'd *LOVE* to see is mandatory licensing on boxes, like we do with food ingredients. Imagine putting the Windows EULA on the back of the Windows Box, forced to use no smaller than a 1/8 in characters? That ought to make the licenses a little more terse.
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Why don't you just call yourself Michigans? It sounds good, it's not esoteric, and it's easy on the tongue.
:-)
Everyone from Massachusetts is a Bostonian, however.
-Chris
And this has exactly what relevance to the grandparent comment? Your analogy is absolutely useless in this argument.
It's happened before. Look at the Challenger fiasco. Granted, I don't think anyone went to jail for criminal negligence, but it wasn't a "hidden" cause when there were so many whistleblowers. Similar situation to what we have here.
Not to reinforce this guys tripe (because it was tripe), but you're just encouraging him to continue to do so, by giving him attention. Leave the tool unmoderated at 1, and ignore him.
;-)
And as much as I love my astronauts, and my country, and my citizens, and my space program (yes, I pay for it, it's mine too!). I don't consider them heroes. Heroes are people who go out every day in do hard things. Those astronauts were recipients of the ultimate social program, the US Military Industrial Complex. Have a "Navy SEAL BUD/S" type lottery for ordinary normal American's like you and me to compete for a seat on those rockets, and I'd consider the astronauts heroes.
I consider them heroes simply for signing up for armed service, and putting their lives on the line for me, not because they strap themselves to 4 million pounds of explosives and metal all built by the lowest bidder.
But he's a tool. Don't respond to tools.
Have a day.
Some insightful man went into this rant this week on why analogies in arguments are useless. I think you just blew a really big hole in his argument, or you picked REALLY good analogies. :-)
Oh my kingdom for a mod point to give to you...
-Chris
Getting a heavy object to sink, and yet still stay bouyant enough to surface is a whole hell of a lot less an engineering challenge than getting a big-ass and extremely robust space vehicle to 200-500 miles ASL. You'll notice that an old Los Angeles class attack submarine, with VERY heavy nuclear power plant ran about $600 million in 1970's dollars, and yet the Shuttle runs about $2-$2.5 billion in 1980's dollars. Hell, even the new Virginia class submarine only costs $2billion in fy2000 dollars and it weighs a LOT more than the Shuttle's 100 someodd tons.
But most submarines don't have to worry about 20,000mph paint flecks and broken satellites flying at them at high speed. The worst external threats they have to worry about are running into ships, other submarines, getting hit with exploding torpedos, and running into terrain.
But that's why we need space elevators. Unfortunately, to have space elevators, we need lightweight chemical/nuclear launchers. And those will ALWAYS be fragile.
I hate to say it then, why doesn't Slashdot just become a farking NYTimes partner? Oh right, OSDN(VA Software) is still losing money. Nevermind.
I concur with that. The same crap that killed TSR killed RIFTS, IMHO. Too much material, most of it not very good. The good news is that Palladium seems to run a WHOLE lot leaner than TSR ever did, and made the intelligent move of not changing their very popular game mechanics simply to make more money, so I don't see them going away anytime soon. And when you say "I play RIFTS" it doesn't have the same negative connotations as "I played D&D last weekend"...
"Oh no, you satanist!!!!"
Have a day!
-Chris
And last I heard, it was a substance called aerogel. I understand one of the primary target uses for this stuff was to be on-orbit debris retrieval.
And now thanks to all those damn hippy vegans, McDonalds fries now suck. First BK, then Mcy-D's... Guess I'll just have to resort to cooking my own fries in my deep-fat fryolator. The trouble I go through for a good-tasting fry... 3rd degree burns, here I come...
;-)
Yes, the above was mostly sarcasm. I don't hate vegans, although I do taunt them with meat every chance I get.
-Chris
I thought it was the fact that modern lambs aren't allowed to MOVE at all, and that's what gives lamb-meat it's delicious and succulent flavor and tenderness.
FTR: I hate veal, but love chops... go figure.
-Chris
You and me both, brother. Maybe we should all start a support group?!
-Chris
So $3-6K. I'm presuming a pair of new machines to run the hosts. I know Windows2000 server won't run nearly as well on my BDC hosts as NT 4.0 did. Sorry.
:-)
As to your point about NetBIOS, yes, friend, I *DO* know what I'm talking about. I made the nubee error of irrevocably linking NetBIOS and CIFS. My bad.
Kid? Christ, I'm probably older than you are.
Whatever happened to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" Emphasis on USEFUL!?
Not just money-grubbing? Even as a photographer who has work published and copyrighted, I'm about at wits end, and say screw the whole thing. No more patents, no more copyrights, no more trademarks. Free for all...
(well, trademarks aren't so bad, really, except this whole trademark/domain name thing)
The world got along just fine without patents and copyrights... Why shouldn't it now?
Actually, I think the reason is money. In a down economy, no one is willing to spend $10-20K just to get better manageability of their Windows networks. They'll just foist all that extra work on the already RIF heavy IT department, and make them suffer.
You meant NetBIOS name resolution, I presume, as opposed to actual NetBIOS, because AD doesn't have anything to do with replacing NetBIOS.
Smells like a troll... I meant job as in the capitalistic go to a building or work from home, and collect a paycheck job, not a find your place in your own ecological niche job.
But even that patent has prior art. If you spun around in a normal swing, "one which the seat is in the same plane as the supporting arm from which the two chains are held", and interlocked the chains together, you could do this tarzan swinging as well. I must have home movies of me doing this when I was a kid...
Hell, I bet we can find it in TV and movies from the 60's and 70's if we look hard enough...
Last I knew, you had to pay to even have the filing looked at.
/ ope/fee2003 0101.htm
;-) Oh, but I can see all the abuse from shell companies and Enron-esque tactics, so maybe that won't work... Or, "Why punish the successful?" Because they have the resources to continue being successful, while the rest of us are struggling to do so. For a better example, why don't they light super-heavyweights box with welter-weights? Hmmm???
US PTO 2003 Fee Schedule.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs
Fee Code 37 CFR Description Fee Small Entity Fee
(if applicable)
1001/2001 1.16(a) Basic filing fee - Utility 750.00 375.00
1006/2006 1.16(a) Basic filing fee - Utility (CPA) 750.00 375.00
1551/2551 1.20(e) Due at 3.5 years 890.00 445.00
1552/2552 1.20(f) Due at 7.5 years 2,050.00 1,025.00
1553/2553 1.20(g) Due at 11.5 years 3,150.00 1,575.00
So while they make money from renewals, they don't necessarily make money from granting patents. Just the fact of filing an application puts at least $350 in their hands. Hell, I'm all for revised fee schedule:
Corps less than $1m annual revenue: $350
Corps > $1m < $100m: $700
Corps > $100m: $10,000
Even the playing field a little, no?
-Chris
Are you kidding me? MS couldn't pull off a beowulf cluster if they wanted to. Shared Everything clustering is a PITA (necessary sometimes, but still a PITA). And that's all that Microsoft Clustering will do. 4 nodes. No more. Although it DOES work well... with 2 nodes. :-)
;-)
Oh wait, have I been trolled?
Yes, but to Hitler the Jews were subhuman, whereas the people he was fighting were humans in his eyes, deserving of being killed, yes, but not made to suffer like the jews.
Are you trying to say that .NET packaging is easier than .JAR files?
.NET CLR was designed to support C#, C++, VB, and Foxpro, all of which are languages that Microsoft writes compilers for. The rest is fluff designed to placate the OSS masses. But your point is essentially correct. However, both have been taken quite beyond their design expectations, to support many languages, so it's really a moot point.
The
-Chris
No it doesn't, since many of the platforms C is used on don't have a concept of a GUI. It would be nice if the next generation of C/C++ had different levels of compliance.
.EXE, fork() threads, etc).
Standard languge bits templates, keywords etc.
Standard IPC bits
Standard Process Management (.DLL,
Standard GUI bits.
And different platforms could adhere to one or other of the levels of support. I mean, it's not as if we don't already have a nasty PITA time trying to figure out if our compiler's template support is broken, or if the STL that shipped from the vendor has flaws in it.
So you're saying that the EULA has been challenged and found not viable? Someone has already commented that in Germany only the bits visible on the box are enforceable, yet I hadn't known that any EULA's had been tested in court. AFAIK, in the U.S., these are still untested waters.
Oh if only I could give you one of the mod points I have. . Good point. Truth in labelling laws?
But that would be illegal. Unless of course the EULA has no force in law, which is not exactly something *I'm* willing to try and get overturned. If said vendor is willing to offer a complete and total refund if the EULA is not approved of, then that should have no impact on the viability of say EULA.
You can have whatever license you want on your software. Just don't rip me off trying to sell it. Now what I'd *LOVE* to see is mandatory licensing on boxes, like we do with food ingredients. Imagine putting the Windows EULA on the back of the Windows Box, forced to use no smaller than a 1/8 in characters? That ought to make the licenses a little more terse.
-Chris