I know that this is most likely way out of left-field, but isn't it interesting that the GPL is so versatile? I havn't read through it completely, and by all means, I AM NOT A LAWYER. But I truly respect how dynamic it is.
Software can be released under it.. for free. Books, hardware specs, art, music (please don't argue that it *is* art, I may vomit), and countless other things that would benefit the community.
The GPL has truly turned into what the 'Patent' may have originally meant to be. A great idea that gives undeniable credit to the original author, while enriching the community by giving the new idea free reign.
I am waiting for the day when I can log on and download almost any book imaginable. A day where we don't pay for someones intellectual property, but rather we pay for the materials that we use to view that property (CDs, pulp, disposable LCDs, you name it).
I thought that it was particularly interesting that they devoted an entire section to explaing how someone was eventually going to bring a lawsuit to the table.
The funny thing about lawsuits is that large corporations are using them as leverage. Say I have a big-time company that makes OS' (what, me? pointing fingers? NEVER!), and I find a website that, although it is clearly labeled a parody, I find slanderous. Now, I am big and burly and have lots of money. The owners of this site are most likely either poor or not well-off enough to be able to support themselves easily while fending me and my macho corporation off.
So I sue. Even though I am obviously in the wrong, 90% of the time, the po' wittle website (say that five times fast!) will cave in simply because they cannot pay the incredibly high lawyer's fees.
Ah yes, welcome to America, Land Of The Free (tm.. of course.)
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Ah, but if i simply add a key sentence somewhere in my email, say,
"I'm going to kill the president with help from my new friends in the terrorist group."
instead of adding a huge list of key-words at the end.. would that throw them off? And if everyone did that? Wouldn't that create quite the ruckus?
'But master, I'm not afraid of the NSA.' 'Oh? You will be. You will be.' --
I read an interesting article this morning on SGI and it's future. Heck, it may even be this article that in my rush to beat the floods of AC's out I've decided to temporarily postpone reading to jot this down. Anyways, this article talked about how for the longest time, Cray held this niche in the market that noone could penetrate. 'Cray' was synonamous(sp?) with 'SuperComputer'. Then something terrible happened: BEOWULF. (Yes, yes, I know.. make all the cracks that you like, but this story just SCREAMS Beowulf threads.) They said all kinds of neat-o things like how it has become easy for companys that want huge processing power to get it at a fraction of the price through massively powerful parallel computers. A thousand P3's are most likely still cheaper than a Cray.
One interesting thing that stuck in my mind was how the CEO, you know, what's-his-name, said that the advantage of Cray Machines was in the architecture.
This would keep the mean old Beowulf at bay.
He was talking about how in the PCs under (or above, doesn't really matter) our desks, the processor is powerful and the pipe is small which limits the amount of data that can be pushed through. Crays are fast with huge pipes, making them perfect for big data-crunching applications (like simulating wind sheer in a Cumulonimbus Thunderstorm in real-time).
Now, how long will it be before the architecture (finally) in our PCs changes to something that will be more along the lines of this system? 10 years? more? less? Who knows.
Man, I rambled alot. I know that I had a point somewhere in there.
Lacking sense or substance; empty: an inane comment.
HA! - I'm sorry, i do partially agree with the things that you said. However, like spielberg and (send hatemail to: blowme@screwyou.com) george lucas, Disney was ultimately about making entertainment. I don't think he was as utterly communist as your comment would lend us to believe.
I really enjoyed this book. You start with the feeling that you don't know what's going to happen, and when you finish.. you can't really believe what happened. Truly a trip into the 'Alice through the looking glass' side of life.
here is a very recent interview with the man himself. It revolves around his relationship with Squaresoft and the Final Fantasy series.
For all of you that are not in the know, Mr. Amano created the character designs for the Final Fantasy series up until number six. He is now back in the saddle and working actively on number nine. Yay!
.. community on slashdot. First the Unified field theory.. now this! Yippee. When do we get the space hotel announcement?
This is actually a cool idea. You rip apart DNA strand and place what you want to put together between the strands. Then you allow the strands to reform. Whamo! you have your fabbed object. I wonder how well they can control the operation. Can they build things on the atomic level with this?
To the best of my knowledge, science today is not what it was in say 1900. A discovery like the UFT is not something that could possibly be predicted as to when it will occur. In my opinion, it will eventually be discovered by one man/woman (let's be PC here, ok?) who has decided to take a radical view that just happened to be *right*.
The Peer Review System
The Peer Review System is a stifling and backwards way to attack something as complex and virtually limitless as the field of Physics (ok, perhaps science in general). I don't believe that it is a very logical approach to have established scientists, with set and narrow views, dictating the coarse of the sciences of tomorrow. Without the recognition and assistance of these high-level scientists, a theory, however valid, will very possibly be lost due to simple-mindedness of the few.
I completed EVERY SINGLE BLASTED HATEFUL EVIL TERRIBLE CRAPPY USELESS form entry.. and then it spit out this:
Error Diagnostic Information ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation)
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Can't allocate space for object 'LongAnswers' in database 'betarep' because the 'default' segment is full. If you ran out of space in Syslogs, dump the transaction log. Otherwise, use ALTER DATABASE or sp_extendsegment to increase the size of the segment.
SQL = "exec SaveApplicationForm 2, '10043', 'Rami', 'James', 'Altec Lansing R&D Israel', 'Arlozorov 18', 'Ra''ananna', '66', '43608', '99', '+972 053 550306', '', '', 'RJames@altecmm.com', 'Intermediate', 'I work creating user interfaces and graphics for Altec Lansing.', 'Testing document Letters General use documents', 'We are a dynamic working environment that needs a high level of efficiency and productivity. Incorporating Linux and Corel Office could be a boon to our business.', 'I currently test softwares from a broad spectrum of types, including: Audio software, Alpha-stage sound algorithms, Graphics softwares, Internet applications, etc.', '', 'Adobe Photoshop', '5', 'Graphic', 'Microsoft Word', '', 'Word Processing', 'Adobe Illustrator', '8', 'Graphic', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'Pentium3/550Mhz 256 Megs RAM', 'Generic Hand-built machine', 'Hitachi DVD', 'HP Deskjet 880', 'None', 'None', 'S3 Virge', '16', 'Mag DJ707', 'Microsoft IntelliMouse', 'SoundBlaster LIVE!', 'HP ScanJet 5P', 'None', 'Red Hat Linux 6.1', '98 Second Edition; Millenium Beta', 'Yes', 'HP Software', 'No.', 'None', 'None'"
Or perhaps you could learn to spell like a normal human-being. Why don't you grow up, you twit.
Isn't there some way that Rob could implement some kind of script that would search for keywords (script kiddie nonsense and f1rst post bull) and filter them out?
I would rather a moderator spend his/her points in getting worthwhile things moderated up.. than worthless trash like this moderated into oblivion.
Here, in Israel, the main phone company, Bezek international, is airing a commercial about the future of communications. It has about as much substance as those blasted Intel PIII commercials.. but i did notice that they showed a cellular phone with a small (say 140*120) pixel video-phone.. on cellular.
With compression technology what it is, and this new higher-bandwidth technology, wouldn't it be rather simple to have some sort of portable video conferencing device?
So he still got a 100 even though he went to jail, right?
I'm so tired of this hellmouth garbage. It's part of human nature to piss on the weak. I was pissed on. Someone else was pissed on Yesterday. Tommorrow someone else gets pissed on. It's life.
Slashdot Mirror
I know that this is most likely way out of left-field, but isn't it interesting that the GPL is so versatile? I havn't read through it completely, and by all means, I AM NOT A LAWYER. But I truly respect how dynamic it is.
Software can be released under it.. for free. Books, hardware specs, art, music (please don't argue that it *is* art, I may vomit), and countless other things that would benefit the community.
The GPL has truly turned into what the 'Patent' may have originally meant to be. A great idea that gives undeniable credit to the original author, while enriching the community by giving the new idea free reign.
I am waiting for the day when I can log on and download almost any book imaginable. A day where we don't pay for someones intellectual property, but rather we pay for the materials that we use to view that property (CDs, pulp, disposable LCDs, you name it).
WARNING: I may be a purest.. sue me.
And under operating systems:
Windows 98; Windows 95.
What gives? A site for IT pros? Hardly.
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"We will be supporting Q3 for quite some time. Any problems we have will get fixed, and some new features m[a]y sneak in. "
Hehe. Unscheduled upgrades are always a welcome thing.
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I thought that it was particularly interesting that they devoted an entire section to explaing how someone was eventually going to bring a lawsuit to the table.
The funny thing about lawsuits is that large corporations are using them as leverage. Say I have a big-time company that makes OS' (what, me? pointing fingers? NEVER!), and I find a website that, although it is clearly labeled a parody, I find slanderous. Now, I am big and burly and have lots of money. The owners of this site are most likely either poor or not well-off enough to be able to support themselves easily while fending me and my macho corporation off.
So I sue. Even though I am obviously in the wrong, 90% of the time, the po' wittle website (say that five times fast!) will cave in simply because they cannot pay the incredibly high lawyer's fees.
Ah yes, welcome to America, Land Of The Free (tm.. of course.)
--
Ah, but if i simply add a key sentence somewhere in my email, say,
"I'm going to kill the president with help from my new friends in the terrorist group."
instead of adding a huge list of key-words at the end.. would that throw them off? And if everyone did that? Wouldn't that create quite the ruckus?
'But master, I'm not afraid of the NSA.'
'Oh? You will be. You will be.'
--
I read an interesting article this morning on SGI and it's future. Heck, it may even be this article that in my rush to beat the floods of AC's out I've decided to temporarily postpone reading to jot this down. Anyways, this article talked about how for the longest time, Cray held this niche in the market that noone could penetrate. 'Cray' was synonamous(sp?) with 'SuperComputer'. Then something terrible happened: BEOWULF. (Yes, yes, I know.. make all the cracks that you like, but this story just SCREAMS Beowulf threads.) They said all kinds of neat-o things like how it has become easy for companys that want huge processing power to get it at a fraction of the price through massively powerful parallel computers. A thousand P3's are most likely still cheaper than a Cray.
One interesting thing that stuck in my mind was how the CEO, you know, what's-his-name, said that the advantage of Cray Machines was in the architecture.
This would keep the mean old Beowulf at bay.
He was talking about how in the PCs under (or above, doesn't really matter) our desks, the processor is powerful and the pipe is small which limits the amount of data that can be pushed through. Crays are fast with huge pipes, making them perfect for big data-crunching applications (like simulating wind sheer in a Cumulonimbus Thunderstorm in real-time).
Now, how long will it be before the architecture (finally) in our PCs changes to something that will be more along the lines of this system? 10 years? more? less? Who knows.
Man, I rambled alot. I know that I had a point somewhere in there.
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w-o-u-l-d y-o-u l-i-k-e t-o p-l-a-y a g-a-m-e-?
-> THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE
w-o-u-l-d y-o-u l-i-k-e t-o p-l-a-y a g-a-m-e-?
-> THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE
O-K.
O|X|O
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O|O|X
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X|X|O
-> NO! YOU STUPID FSCKING MACHINE! I SAID THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE! NOT TICTACTOE!
[WHUMP WHUMP BANG BANG CRUNCH CRUNCH]
-> THERE. SUCK ON THAT YOU OVER-GROWN TOASTER.
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And i'm just wondering when the last time you actually tried to uninstall IE4/5 from Windows 98 was.
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inane (n-n)
adj. inaner, inanest.
Lacking sense or substance; empty: an inane comment.
HA! - I'm sorry, i do partially agree with the things that you said. However, like spielberg and (send hatemail to: blowme@screwyou.com) george lucas, Disney was ultimately about making entertainment. I don't think he was as utterly communist as your comment would lend us to believe.
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Neverwhere
I really enjoyed this book. You start with the feeling that you don't know what's going to happen, and when you finish.. you can't really believe what happened. Truly a trip into the 'Alice through the looking glass' side of life.
http://209.35.126.38/squaredge/cgi-bin/viewnews.cg i?newsid941604391,39281,
here is a very recent interview with the man himself. It revolves around his relationship with Squaresoft and the Final Fantasy series.
For all of you that are not in the know, Mr. Amano created the character designs for the Final Fantasy series up until number six. He is now back in the saddle and working actively on number nine. Yay!
--
.. community on slashdot. First the Unified field theory.. now this! Yippee. When do we get the space hotel announcement?
This is actually a cool idea. You rip apart DNA strand and place what you want to put together between the strands. Then you allow the strands to reform. Whamo! you have your fabbed object. I wonder how well they can control the operation. Can they build things on the atomic level with this?
--
To the best of my knowledge, science today is not what it was in say 1900. A discovery like the UFT is not something that could possibly be predicted as to when it will occur. In my opinion, it will eventually be discovered by one man/woman (let's be PC here, ok?) who has decided to take a radical view that just happened to be *right*.
The Peer Review System
The Peer Review System is a stifling and backwards way to attack something as complex and virtually limitless as the field of Physics (ok, perhaps science in general). I don't believe that it is a very logical approach to have established scientists, with set and narrow views, dictating the coarse of the sciences of tomorrow. Without the recognition and assistance of these high-level scientists, a theory, however valid, will very possibly be lost due to simple-mindedness of the few.
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"Strange, Enya-like New Age music poured from a cactus."
Don't you just *HATE* it when that happens?
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I completed EVERY SINGLE BLASTED HATEFUL EVIL TERRIBLE CRAPPY USELESS form entry.. and then it spit out this:
n form.cfm?bp_entity_id=2
Error Diagnostic Information
ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation)
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Can't allocate space for object 'LongAnswers' in database 'betarep' because the 'default' segment is full. If you ran out of space in Syslogs, dump the transaction log. Otherwise, use ALTER DATABASE or sp_extendsegment to increase the size of the segment.
SQL = "exec SaveApplicationForm 2, '10043', 'Rami', 'James', 'Altec Lansing R&D Israel', 'Arlozorov 18', 'Ra''ananna', '66', '43608', '99', '+972 053 550306', '', '', 'RJames@altecmm.com', 'Intermediate', 'I work creating user interfaces and graphics for Altec Lansing.', 'Testing document Letters General use documents', 'We are a dynamic working environment that needs a high level of efficiency and productivity. Incorporating Linux and Corel Office could be a boon to our business.', 'I currently test softwares from a broad spectrum of types, including: Audio software, Alpha-stage sound algorithms, Graphics softwares, Internet applications, etc.', '', 'Adobe Photoshop', '5', 'Graphic', 'Microsoft Word', '', 'Word Processing', 'Adobe Illustrator', '8', 'Graphic', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'Pentium3/550Mhz 256 Megs RAM', 'Generic Hand-built machine', 'Hitachi DVD', 'HP Deskjet 880', 'None', 'None', 'S3 Virge', '16', 'Mag DJ707', 'Microsoft IntelliMouse', 'SoundBlaster LIVE!', 'HP ScanJet 5P', 'None', 'Red Hat Linux 6.1', '98 Second Edition; Millenium Beta', 'Yes', 'HP Software', 'No.', 'None', 'None'"
Data Source = "betarep"
Date/Time: 11/14/99 03:01:00
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Remote Address: 212.150.159.2
HTTP Referer: http://nas.corel.com/cfscripts/betarep/applicatio
Template: e:\dox\cfscripts\betarep\submission.cfm
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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And what purpose would it serve to keep china from using linux? If a few BILLION more people begin using linux.. where is the harm in that?
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I have an account that i use to filter all my spam through.. the account that i use when i need to get a mail.. but i know will get sold to spammers.
That account is usually getting about 20-40 spams a *DAY*.
That same acount was empty when i checked it this morning.
That has never happened before. Thank you RBL.
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Or perhaps you could learn to spell like a normal human-being. Why don't you grow up, you twit.
Isn't there some way that Rob could implement some kind of script that would search for keywords (script kiddie nonsense and f1rst post bull) and filter them out?
I would rather a moderator spend his/her points in getting worthwhile things moderated up.. than worthless trash like this moderated into oblivion.
--
Here, in Israel, the main phone company, Bezek international, is airing a commercial about the future of communications. It has about as much substance as those blasted Intel PIII commercials.. but i did notice that they showed a cellular phone with a small (say 140*120) pixel video-phone.. on cellular.
With compression technology what it is, and this new higher-bandwidth technology, wouldn't it be rather simple to have some sort of portable video conferencing device?
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1.4 Gigawatts!
(hehe, i wonder how doc brown would like this thing!)
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It's a nicely setup site with a nice idea behind it. But why would there be a login required for a search site/portal?
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ya, tell me about it.
this karma thing is really getting me down.
back to -1 karma?.. AGAIN?
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I was gonna write something insightful..
but i forgot what.
[Ring, Ring]
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So he still got a 100 even though he went to jail, right?
I'm so tired of this hellmouth garbage. It's part of human nature to piss on the weak. I was pissed on. Someone else was pissed on Yesterday. Tommorrow someone else gets pissed on. It's life.
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don't you love the part with the trible-breasted lady on mars? or how about the part where old shwartzy's eyes are bulging out?
:) I get such a kick out of that movie.
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