Those old light bulbs are still working because they don't operate as bright. Put a modern light bulb on a dimmer set to just barely glow and it will last 100 years too. (assuming no earthquakes or other outside forces)
They don't take a babies finger prints at brith. I think (but do not have eveidence other then a failing memory) that courts have not allowed it. DNA should fall under the same laws.
Either way vote against the congressmen who wants this.
My roommate is considering dropping his land line and getting his wife a cell phone. For $40/month she gets 600 day minutes, and 1000 weekend minutes, and the weekends are all long distance included. That phone also includes caller ID and voice mail. His land line service is $50/month, after you add in the options included in the cell phone (except voice mail!). He doesn't use the land phone for 600 minutes a month, and his wife makes a lot of long distance calls to family out of state (weekends). So it would be cheaper for him to drop the land line phone. (He is a carpenter and needs a cell phone for work)
Cell phones are not cheaper for people who make a lot of local calls from one location.
Paying for incomcing calls isn't quite as big of an annoyance as you think. Most plans have first incoming minute free. (so wrong numbers don't cost you anything) Also because you pay for that time phone Spam is illegal. I don't get calls on my cell phone about new siding for my home (and I rent), and the like.
For me a land phone doesn't make sense. Since high school the longest I've lived at one address was just over a year. My cell phone number hasn't changed for several addresses. When I move again it won't change either. Yes I pay more for it, but I still won't go back. (I wish they would lower prices, but they have us users)
(I might have messed up the letters of that thing)
Most states do not recignise shirnk wrap licenses. The DCMA specifically authorized reverse engineering for interoperability. You server will not work with their clien unless you reverse engineer it. You can probably argue in court that the clause of their license is invalid. That is not only are you legal (since you are reverse engineering for interoperability which congress clearly intened via the DMCA), but end users could be legal too.
In any case you need a lawyer, which I am not, to send a threatening letter back to them. In the early rounds they can't do anything. Once they bring you to court you counter sue them under anti-trust acts, and harrassment acts. As the little guy juries will tend to agree with you. But you need a lawyer to plan the stragity, and that will cost $$$. (I wonder if the EFF is interested. saddly they might not have the money to fight your case)
In other words by not limited yourself to linux you open up a large scene. Just make sure some linux native stuff is running, and you have enough CPU power to do everything.
For non americans, and americans who have forgotten hisotry: in the 1850s it was legal to own black people, and require them to do labor for you in some southern States of the US. In Minnesota this practice was illegal. A southern person brought his slave to Minnesota. The US surpreeme court eventially ruled that the black man could be legally owned in Minnesota! Soon after the Civil war was faught and eventially eliminated the practice of owning people in all states of the US.
Notice several things: the above case went a lot farther then we currently are. The above case when lost in the courts wasn't over yet. Lets hope we don't have to go to war to keep our rights, but rest assured some folks are willing to if need be.
Not directly. However your high priest has a list of sacrafaices that need to be performed on a regular basis. not just sheep, there is also the goat/scapegoat, and other sacrafices.
Accualy now that you have evidence that they do not consider themselves an ISP you find some other student with content you object to, not DeCSS related and sue the school for hosting it.
Ideally you can get a distant frined to put such content up for this purpose. Think outside the box too, get a vegitarian friend to sue on grounds that sheep sacrafice is offensive. (Jews and Muslims sacrafice sheep all the time) Or maybe go the other way.
I worked for a (different) McDonalds at that time. We turned the tempature down a little bit and got so many complaints that we ended up turnging it back up (Note, not up to boiling, but hotter then out compititors). People like coffee hot. Those that don't ask us to put ice in the cup, which we gladdly did free of charge, and always had.
You can read the court decision, what other restaruants were doing all you want. I personally heard several of the complaints about the coffee after that. We didn't change the tempature immeadially after the lawsuit, and didn't get complaints until after the change, which stoped when we brought the tempature back to where it was. Customers could tell the difference, and didn't like it.
My company provides ear plugs. I think they are required (OSHA) to because the lab gets so loud, and I've only seen them in the labs. but I just grab a packet of ear plugs and head to my desk.
Blissful silence, yet I can (just) hear a phone ring, a system beep, or other interuption when I need to.
Rename everyone with a.com to.com.us or xyz.int. Don't re-open the.com space though.
To grandfather things in every country should set up their name servers so that in the us if I go to xyz.com it looks up xyz.com.us, while in London it would go to xyz.co.uk. This would require some name server magic that we don't currently have, but it would not be too hard to add.
I'm not sure how the.int that I proposed above would work, exactly, but it looks like we need something like it.
Why store it? All that nuclear waste is recycleable, with a by product of more energy then was gain from the initial fusion. (I don't know where the end of the line is on recycling, but nearly all the waste they want to store is easially recyclable)
Too bad the greenies are even more against recycling the waste then they are against nuclear power. (Okay, there is the problem that an insecure plant could allow a terriorist to create a bomb, but just mandate enough redundant security measures and then check them. Physical security is hard, but we understand it)
However, if the original requirements document did _not_ include the need for or capability to support ALT tags, then IBM are the teflon
I think the courts are going to say that acess for the blind (and otherwise disabled when the reasonable capability to do so exists) should be obvious, and is already required by current laws. therefore it need not be written in the contract.
If I order a custom car, (the rich can afford to hire a few machinists and engineers to design a car to their exact specifications if they want) and it doesn't come with an engine, courts will agree that a means of propelling the car at highway speeds (safely) are standard in all madern cars, and therefore they need to retrofit something in their to make it go. A strict reading of the contract however will not show an engine.
SMP is not always faster. If you are running two completley independent CPU bound programs, then SMP is faster, but then why not have two comptuers? As soon as your threads need to interact SMP slows down. Depending on your algorythm this might or not be a big deal.
Or to put it anouther way, the best SMP code will in the general case be slower on a 2 cpu system as the smae program for one processor that is twice as fast. (ie a SMP program for two P3-500 will run slower then a single processor only program for one P3-1000. Cache cohearancy issues and the like. Of course two P3-500s might be cheaper by enough to make it worthwhile.
FreeBSD can run ACPI because their SMP is poor. FreeBSD (Note that 5.x will probably change this) using the big giant lock mythod of getting at the hardware. Thus when you acess hardware on one CPU the other cpu is stoped. Generally this is bad, but it means that ACPI works - the system looks like a single processor to ACPI.
I love freeBSD, and have run it in SMP since the pre-3.x days.
Accually audio folks that I know of want linux for a more inportant reason: it doesn't crash.
for those who don't know, music has magical moments where everything clicks and works. The recording of the 73rd time through the same song might be as much as 1000 times better then the previous times. If you don't get the song recorded that time you missed the magic. Sure you might get it again, but not for a few hundred more times.
* If DeCSS was made for Linux DVD players, then why was the compiled Windows port made and released?
If Contrex wanted to clone the Sony Playstation entirely, why did their early versions use the Sony BIOS?
For those who don't recall, the court rules that even though Contrex used Sony copy righted code for devolpment, that is fair use. that is they needed to test parts of their system seperatly (ie the hardware simulation from software), and the only way to do what was with copyrighted code. Legal because they did not sell said code.
Or to put it simply, deCSS had to be a windows program first because the part to read DVDs in linux was not working. By making it a windows program they can test the relavent part (that which they were working on) without waiting for other code to be debugged.
Here in the US we would just hit them up with a class action lawsuit for discriminating against all the less used browsers, and enforcing a duopoly.
If Opera was out for linux I'd try that just because they could use some cash flow gained by suing companies preventing their takeover of the world... (Not sure if the Opera company would agree, or how UK laws work)
okay, I'm really not a sue happy american, but sometimes it is fun to play one on/.
Seriously, if it works don't break it is a common additude for customers. My dad works for a company that has sold one comptuer product for 15 years. Customers have looked into replacing it, but it turns out nothing will do the job, much less do it better. So they sit with 15 year old technology in the face of nothing better.
REmember better is the key. Change for Change's sake isn't good. They have a buisness to run, procedures and programs that work. Some day PCs will hit the limit. Where I don't know, it might be the laws of physics won't let chips go faster, it might jsut be that they are fast enopugh (ie it can drive your true immersion enviroment for your games at in the hardest mode with power to spare. (true immersion means smell, sound, wrap around sight, walk to control, feels like holding a chainsaw vs a gun...)
About 5 years ago a friend checked, and DEC was still selling the (in)famious PDP11!
Now if this is just a few models, I'm not too worried, but if this is the entire VAX line, Compaq is in trouble - they just killed any chance of being the next DEC. Unlike the PC world, DEC supported their old stuff forever.
Not quite. Programing languages are all turing compatable, and it can be proven you can translate from one to anouther correctly. Bablefish doesn't do a very good job of translating english to german (or back), and both those languages are based from latin roots.
What this means to you is that if I teach you C, to the point that you become good at it, I can teach you perl, APL, and several other languages in very little time. (In school I had a class that covered 12 languages in 10 weeks) If I tought you german it would help you to learn Danish, but it would still take you a while to learn Danish. I could then to Spanish and Portageese (very close), and you would learn faster. If I went on to Korean, Russian and (american) Indian, you would have little advantage over someone who had never learned anouther language. Some only because you wouldn't expect it to look like english.
In the last year I've used about equal amounts of TCL, Spanish, German, and C - almost no usage of any of them, and I used to know them all. If I needed to pick up one again I wouldn't have a problem picking up C or TCL, because I've been programing even though it is in a completely different language. Even though I spend more time speaking english then programing I'd have a hard time getting back to proficant with Spanish or German.
For your network dhcp is the obvious solution. (Congradulations to the first post comment that was on topic an correct. lacking details, but that is a different story)
For a more general approach, NIS comes to mind, though it wasn't designed to be secure. NIS+? kerboses? Your not the only one with the problem you state, in fact you hardly have a program compared to many installations. I've seen systems with 300 Solaris/aparc machines, 200 sunOS 4.x (much nicer then solaris IMHO), 75 IRIX, 200 Linux, and probably some HPUX and AIX scattered in there two. This at a university for student accessable accounts in CS or other engineering areas. Your 200 machines is nothing compared to the 20,000 users they managed. And most would not consider that close to large.
My point is that others have seen your same problem, and worked on solutions.
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Make is a general purpose program, and need not be used for only c programs.
In fact, make is an excellent choice, because it allows for dependcy checking. ie: there is a empty pot in place, water avaiable, and enough coffee beans/grounds. Sure you can do it with custom code, but make does a good job of that.
Unplug keybaord Take a shower while holding keyboard. Let dry for at least 24 hours plug keyboard back into comptuer
Generally it is a bad idea to unplug or plug things into the comptuer while the comptuer is on.
PS, careful what you do in the shower. Shaving is probably a bad idea. Most soaps that are good for humans are find for the keyboard, but make sure you rinse good.
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Those old light bulbs are still working because they don't operate as bright. Put a modern light bulb on a dimmer set to just barely glow and it will last 100 years too. (assuming no earthquakes or other outside forces)
They don't take a babies finger prints at brith. I think (but do not have eveidence other then a failing memory) that courts have not allowed it. DNA should fall under the same laws.
Either way vote against the congressmen who wants this.
My roommate is considering dropping his land line and getting his wife a cell phone. For $40/month she gets 600 day minutes, and 1000 weekend minutes, and the weekends are all long distance included. That phone also includes caller ID and voice mail. His land line service is $50/month, after you add in the options included in the cell phone (except voice mail!). He doesn't use the land phone for 600 minutes a month, and his wife makes a lot of long distance calls to family out of state (weekends). So it would be cheaper for him to drop the land line phone. (He is a carpenter and needs a cell phone for work)
Cell phones are not cheaper for people who make a lot of local calls from one location.
Paying for incomcing calls isn't quite as big of an annoyance as you think. Most plans have first incoming minute free. (so wrong numbers don't cost you anything) Also because you pay for that time phone Spam is illegal. I don't get calls on my cell phone about new siding for my home (and I rent), and the like.
For me a land phone doesn't make sense. Since high school the longest I've lived at one address was just over a year. My cell phone number hasn't changed for several addresses. When I move again it won't change either. Yes I pay more for it, but I still won't go back. (I wish they would lower prices, but they have us users)
(I might have messed up the letters of that thing)
Most states do not recignise shirnk wrap licenses. The DCMA specifically authorized reverse engineering for interoperability. You server will not work with their clien unless you reverse engineer it. You can probably argue in court that the clause of their license is invalid. That is not only are you legal (since you are reverse engineering for interoperability which congress clearly intened via the DMCA), but end users could be legal too.
In any case you need a lawyer, which I am not, to send a threatening letter back to them. In the early rounds they can't do anything. Once they bring you to court you counter sue them under anti-trust acts, and harrassment acts. As the little guy juries will tend to agree with you. But you need a lawyer to plan the stragity, and that will cost $$$. (I wonder if the EFF is interested. saddly they might not have the money to fight your case)
No new demos to add, but some ideas if you have time (and $$$) to make it work.
Get a graphics card with multipul monitor support (or several cards). On one have a full screen linux demo running. On anouther have Wine (see someone else's post) running something, with some obvious unix things on screen. Maybe visit and get a mac program running too (There is an open source version, but i've never played with it). Mame is anouther neat thing to run (have some game with a good looping demo). The gameboy (vgb), nintendo (ines, snes9x), sega (mastergear), 2600 (stella), atari-800, apple// (prodosemu?), and so on.
In other words by not limited yourself to linux you open up a large scene. Just make sure some linux native stuff is running, and you have enough CPU power to do everything.
For non americans, and americans who have forgotten hisotry: in the 1850s it was legal to own black people, and require them to do labor for you in some southern States of the US. In Minnesota this practice was illegal. A southern person brought his slave to Minnesota. The US surpreeme court eventially ruled that the black man could be legally owned in Minnesota! Soon after the Civil war was faught and eventially eliminated the practice of owning people in all states of the US.
Notice several things: the above case went a lot farther then we currently are. The above case when lost in the courts wasn't over yet. Lets hope we don't have to go to war to keep our rights, but rest assured some folks are willing to if need be.
Not directly. However your high priest has a list of sacrafaices that need to be performed on a regular basis. not just sheep, there is also the goat/scapegoat, and other sacrafices.
Accualy now that you have evidence that they do not consider themselves an ISP you find some other student with content you object to, not DeCSS related and sue the school for hosting it.
Ideally you can get a distant frined to put such content up for this purpose. Think outside the box too, get a vegitarian friend to sue on grounds that sheep sacrafice is offensive. (Jews and Muslims sacrafice sheep all the time) Or maybe go the other way.
I worked for a (different) McDonalds at that time. We turned the tempature down a little bit and got so many complaints that we ended up turnging it back up (Note, not up to boiling, but hotter then out compititors). People like coffee hot. Those that don't ask us to put ice in the cup, which we gladdly did free of charge, and always had.
You can read the court decision, what other restaruants were doing all you want. I personally heard several of the complaints about the coffee after that. We didn't change the tempature immeadially after the lawsuit, and didn't get complaints until after the change, which stoped when we brought the tempature back to where it was. Customers could tell the difference, and didn't like it.
My company provides ear plugs. I think they are required (OSHA) to because the lab gets so loud, and I've only seen them in the labs. but I just grab a packet of ear plugs and head to my desk.
Blissful silence, yet I can (just) hear a phone ring, a system beep, or other interuption when I need to.
Rename everyone with a .com to .com.us or xyz.int. Don't re-open the .com space though.
To grandfather things in every country should set up their name servers so that in the us if I go to xyz.com it looks up xyz.com.us, while in London it would go to xyz.co.uk. This would require some name server magic that we don't currently have, but it would not be too hard to add.
I'm not sure how the .int that I proposed above would work, exactly, but it looks like we need something like it.
Face it, their is only one name that comes to mind when someone thinks of comptuer review: openBSD.
Therefore lets get theo and the rest of his team to review Carnivore. That they are Canada based only helps to assure they will be independant.
Why store it? All that nuclear waste is recycleable, with a by product of more energy then was gain from the initial fusion. (I don't know where the end of the line is on recycling, but nearly all the waste they want to store is easially recyclable)
Too bad the greenies are even more against recycling the waste then they are against nuclear power. (Okay, there is the problem that an insecure plant could allow a terriorist to create a bomb, but just mandate enough redundant security measures and then check them. Physical security is hard, but we understand it)
However, if the original requirements document did _not_ include the need for or capability to support ALT tags, then IBM are the teflon
I think the courts are going to say that acess for the blind (and otherwise disabled when the reasonable capability to do so exists) should be obvious, and is already required by current laws. therefore it need not be written in the contract.
If I order a custom car, (the rich can afford to hire a few machinists and engineers to design a car to their exact specifications if they want) and it doesn't come with an engine, courts will agree that a means of propelling the car at highway speeds (safely) are standard in all madern cars, and therefore they need to retrofit something in their to make it go. A strict reading of the contract however will not show an engine.
SMP is not always faster. If you are running two completley independent CPU bound programs, then SMP is faster, but then why not have two comptuers? As soon as your threads need to interact SMP slows down. Depending on your algorythm this might or not be a big deal.
Or to put it anouther way, the best SMP code will in the general case be slower on a 2 cpu system as the smae program for one processor that is twice as fast. (ie a SMP program for two P3-500 will run slower then a single processor only program for one P3-1000. Cache cohearancy issues and the like. Of course two P3-500s might be cheaper by enough to make it worthwhile.
FreeBSD can run ACPI because their SMP is poor. FreeBSD (Note that 5.x will probably change this) using the big giant lock mythod of getting at the hardware. Thus when you acess hardware on one CPU the other cpu is stoped. Generally this is bad, but it means that ACPI works - the system looks like a single processor to ACPI.
I love freeBSD, and have run it in SMP since the pre-3.x days.
Accually audio folks that I know of want linux for a more inportant reason: it doesn't crash.
for those who don't know, music has magical moments where everything clicks and works. The recording of the 73rd time through the same song might be as much as 1000 times better then the previous times. If you don't get the song recorded that time you missed the magic. Sure you might get it again, but not for a few hundred more times.
* If DeCSS was made for Linux DVD players, then why was the compiled Windows port made and released?
If Contrex wanted to clone the Sony Playstation entirely, why did their early versions use the Sony BIOS?
For those who don't recall, the court rules that even though Contrex used Sony copy righted code for devolpment, that is fair use. that is they needed to test parts of their system seperatly (ie the hardware simulation from software), and the only way to do what was with copyrighted code. Legal because they did not sell said code.
Or to put it simply, deCSS had to be a windows program first because the part to read DVDs in linux was not working. By making it a windows program they can test the relavent part (that which they were working on) without waiting for other code to be debugged.
Here in the US we would just hit them up with a class action lawsuit for discriminating against all the less used browsers, and enforcing a duopoly.
If Opera was out for linux I'd try that just because they could use some cash flow gained by suing companies preventing their takeover of the world... (Not sure if the Opera company would agree, or how UK laws work)
okay, I'm really not a sue happy american, but sometimes it is fun to play one on /.
Because customers want it?
Seriously, if it works don't break it is a common additude for customers. My dad works for a company that has sold one comptuer product for 15 years. Customers have looked into replacing it, but it turns out nothing will do the job, much less do it better. So they sit with 15 year old technology in the face of nothing better.
REmember better is the key. Change for Change's sake isn't good. They have a buisness to run, procedures and programs that work. Some day PCs will hit the limit. Where I don't know, it might be the laws of physics won't let chips go faster, it might jsut be that they are fast enopugh (ie it can drive your true immersion enviroment for your games at in the hardest mode with power to spare. (true immersion means smell, sound, wrap around sight, walk to control, feels like holding a chainsaw vs a gun...)
About 5 years ago a friend checked, and DEC was still selling the (in)famious PDP11!
Now if this is just a few models, I'm not too worried, but if this is the entire VAX line, Compaq is in trouble - they just killed any chance of being the next DEC. Unlike the PC world, DEC supported their old stuff forever.
Not quite. Programing languages are all turing compatable, and it can be proven you can translate from one to anouther correctly. Bablefish doesn't do a very good job of translating english to german (or back), and both those languages are based from latin roots.
What this means to you is that if I teach you C, to the point that you become good at it, I can teach you perl, APL, and several other languages in very little time. (In school I had a class that covered 12 languages in 10 weeks) If I tought you german it would help you to learn Danish, but it would still take you a while to learn Danish. I could then to Spanish and Portageese (very close), and you would learn faster. If I went on to Korean, Russian and (american) Indian, you would have little advantage over someone who had never learned anouther language. Some only because you wouldn't expect it to look like english.
In the last year I've used about equal amounts of TCL, Spanish, German, and C - almost no usage of any of them, and I used to know them all. If I needed to pick up one again I wouldn't have a problem picking up C or TCL, because I've been programing even though it is in a completely different language. Even though I spend more time speaking english then programing I'd have a hard time getting back to proficant with Spanish or German.
For your network dhcp is the obvious solution. (Congradulations to the first post comment that was on topic an correct. lacking details, but that is a different story)
For a more general approach, NIS comes to mind, though it wasn't designed to be secure. NIS+? kerboses? Your not the only one with the problem you state, in fact you hardly have a program compared to many installations. I've seen systems with 300 Solaris/aparc machines, 200 sunOS 4.x (much nicer then solaris IMHO), 75 IRIX, 200 Linux, and probably some HPUX and AIX scattered in there two. This at a university for student accessable accounts in CS or other engineering areas. Your 200 machines is nothing compared to the 20,000 users they managed. And most would not consider that close to large.
My point is that others have seen your same problem, and worked on solutions.
Make is a general purpose program, and need not be used for only c programs.
In fact, make is an excellent choice, because it allows for dependcy checking. ie: there is a empty pot in place, water avaiable, and enough coffee beans/grounds. Sure you can do it with custom code, but make does a good job of that.
Unplug keybaord
Take a shower while holding keyboard.
Let dry for at least 24 hours
plug keyboard back into comptuer
Generally it is a bad idea to unplug or plug things into the comptuer while the comptuer is on.
PS, careful what you do in the shower. Shaving is probably a bad idea. Most soaps that are good for humans are find for the keyboard, but make sure you rinse good.