The State of California already charges sales tax on internet sales for vendors with a presence (warehouse, brick-and-morter store, etc) within the state. What makes this different from the existing laws?
I tried getting BitTorrent to work under Linux (Slackware 8.1) to download some anime, and I have had no success with this product. The Linux install instructions are useless at best.
Can anyone suggest a better P2P protocol, or better BitTorrent install insturctions?
I've been using SCO Unix/OpenDeskop/OpenServer for about 10 years now. It's never been cutting edge or 'sexy' but it has worked for me. This is just going to make the few supporters SCO has left leave and it gives a case of ammo to Microsoft...
I don't know if this is already available in Linux, or if someone has already mentioned it, but I would like to see panic dumps and the utilities to read them. In SCO OpenServer 5, the panic dump can be copied from swap (when the system reboots) to a storage device (usualy a tape drive) for later retrieval and analysis.
If the "creative" mind behind this project made it as a sequel, it would have a fighting chance. But "re-imaging" the series is going to kill it in the first three weeks.
Maybe Star Trek is suffering from a lack of good Science Fiction writers. If Rick Berman would hang out at a World Science Fiction Convention, or a WesterCon, or (fill in any fan run convention) and met some real SF authors (Niven, Pournell, Vinge, etc) instead of the type of mold that inhabits Hollywood he might hire somone who knows SF and can write.
(Please note: the authors I mentioned were the ones I could come up with quickly because they are all local to me...)
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I've heard that the Pasadena, Ca. offices of Earthlink are shutting down and the support will be out-sourced. This kind of cost saving measure could very well destroy Earthlink. I wonder if the new tech people are even located in North America...
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I hope the author was being tongue-in-cheek, because I have to disagree with his statement. There is nothing in any document, either past or present, that defines being a "good, patriotic American" by glueing oneself to the "idiot box" (my father's term for the TV) every year to watch 22 thugs showing how stupid they really are. If you want to be entertained by blood sports, maybe we should take the gloves away from boxers and give them sharp, pointey objects...
I can be just as much a "good, patriotic American" when I watch baseball, or the Olympics... Besides, any red-blooded, American male should be watching women in skimpy outfits (gymnasts, track-and-field athletes, etc.) instead of men in tight pants! (Tongue in cheek, maybe.)
I remember "I, Robot" being a collection of short stories. I have "The Complete Robot" which is supposed to be a compilation of the Robot anthologies and other robot short stories that didn't make it into the Robot anthologies. One of the anthologies mentioned was "I, Robot."
In the case of the two people with the same names: first one to the net wins. If the musician was slow to getting a web site up, and someone else with the same name gets there first, he loses.
In the case of the individual with the nissan.com domain, if Nissan Motors is willing to pay for moving Mr. Nissan to a TLD that is not.com, then let them do it. If they are not willing to pay, see above.
Both of these cases are similar to the incident in Scotland in which a 100+ year old restaurant was sued my McDonald's because they had the same name. The courts in Scotland found for the defendant because they used the name generations before the founder of McDonald's was born.
I have the Nomand IIc with 128 Mb internal memory, USB port, and a smart media socket that will take up to (and including) a 128 Mb card. I have it working with Slackware 8.1 using command line tools and I'm looking for a graphical tool. I remember from the docs that it is software upgradeable so Creative Labs *may* add ogg support at a later date. Or they may not. Only the folks at Creative Labs know for certain.
I learned Fortran 77 in college, my father learned an earlier version when he was in college. It is ugly, clumsy, strange, and very, very good for doing scientific calculation because it was designed as a scientific calculation language. Anyone who uses it for anything else is going to feel a lot of pain, just as they would if they tried to use other languages for doing calculations, or Cobol for anything at all.
For those of you who aren't aware, BAAF is working in cooperation with Anime Expo. The people who run AX are the worst convention committee in the world. I wonder how much the AX crew has to do BAAF. If it is a lot, it is going to a very bad weekend.
Some good advice: go to ConJose (the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention) instead. Details at www.conjose.org.
Normally I wouldn't want the Fed to legislate technology, but I think it's time to make Asimov's Laws of Robotics a requirement for any robot created in or imported into the US. We could very well have R. Giskard, or something (someone?) like it (him?), in the next 50 years.
I had a motherboard (a Tyan Tomcat IIID) that when new couldn't boot from LS-120 or Zip drives. One quick BIOS upgrade later, and now I could.
This is one example of what happens before the OS loads.
As much as I like SCO OperServer I knew it's days were numbered when SCO acquired and updated Unixware. But not porting OpenUnix (the successor to Unixware) to the IA-64 plaform is a big mistake. It will mean that the AT&T source will not be represented on Intel's new processor.
You must be reading some VERY old info if you think SCO Unix requires an additional license for TCP/IP. It has been standard in SCO since the first release of OpenDesktop.
The only proprietary OS I would leave SCO OpenServer for is SCO Unixware (or it's successor Caldera OpenUnix). Microsoft both blows and sucks. Solaris isn't Unix. And Linux (though I love it) can't get the support it needs from critical systems vendors because they are being bought or brainwashed by Der Fhurer of Redmond.
OpenUnix 8 is the successor to Unixware 7. Unixware was created by Novel based on the SysV R4 code, when SCO bought it they continued working on it and got it up to SysV R5. Then Caldera bought most of SCO, and created OpenUnix 8 which is a merger of the SVR5 Unixware and many features from Linux.
SCO OpenServer 5 is based on SysV R3. It does not suck, and it does do all of the things Bill Gates claims Windows does only better and much more stable.
If Caldera has no interest in porting Unix to the IA-64 platform, it is now time to open source the AT&T Unix code base. I would love to have several proprietary Unix features available to the world (pg for one)...
I've used SCO Unix since the OpenDesktop days and I like it!
Would this tax include items sold in the dealer's rooms at SF conventions? What a nightmare that would be for the people organizing small relaxacons (like LA LA CON).
Also, how could we, the SF fans, be certain that this money is really going to NASA and not into the general fund, or worse yet into the pockets of legislators.
For some reason I'm ending up at www.camelotnaturals.com when I try to go to www.perlbox.org. I tried to do a nslookup of both and I get the same IP address. Does anybody know what the real IP address of www.perlbox.org is?
TIA (dazed and confused behind two layers of Microsoft Proxy Server...)
I agree that Lucas's original intent was not to create a modern mythological tale, but to create a modern Saturday Afternoon SF serial (only with a much larger budget). But to call SF "mere" is to insult hundreds of writers who have sweated blood over their work. Remember that when William Shakespere was writting, his work was "merely" accepted by the general populace as an afternoons distraction. It was only after his death that he had been evelvated to the level of literary god-hood.
The author of the article sounded like some Literary Snob...
After reading this article and the way it makes me feel, I'm starting to understand the Islamic Terrorist. Alomst. The difference is I want to destroy parts of my own country (Redmond, Washington) not somebody elses.
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The State of California already charges sales tax on internet sales for vendors with a presence (warehouse, brick-and-morter store, etc) within the state. What makes this different from the existing laws?
The "...wierd buggy eye..." (sic) thing originated in the US with Walt Disney and was copied by the Japanese before WWII.
Get your facts straight, please.
I tried getting BitTorrent to work under Linux (Slackware 8.1) to download some anime, and I have had no success with this product. The Linux install instructions are useless at best.
Can anyone suggest a better P2P protocol, or better BitTorrent install insturctions?
I've been using SCO Unix/OpenDeskop/OpenServer for about 10 years now. It's never been cutting edge or 'sexy' but it has worked for me. This is just going to make the few supporters SCO has left leave and it gives a case of ammo to Microsoft...
So sad.
I don't know if this is already available in Linux, or if someone has already mentioned it, but I would like to see panic dumps and the utilities to read them. In SCO OpenServer 5, the panic dump can be copied from swap (when the system reboots) to a storage device (usualy a tape drive) for later retrieval and analysis.
If the "creative" mind behind this project made it as a sequel, it would have a fighting chance. But "re-imaging" the series is going to kill it in the first three weeks.
RIP, Battlestar Gallactica.
Maybe Star Trek is suffering from a lack of good Science Fiction writers. If Rick Berman would hang out at a World Science Fiction Convention, or a WesterCon, or (fill in any fan run convention) and met some real SF authors (Niven, Pournell, Vinge, etc) instead of the type of mold that inhabits Hollywood he might hire somone who knows SF and can write.
(Please note: the authors I mentioned were the ones I could come up with quickly because they are all local to me...)
I've heard that the Pasadena, Ca. offices of Earthlink are shutting down and the support will be out-sourced. This kind of cost saving measure could very well destroy Earthlink. I wonder if the new tech people are even located in North America...
I hope the author was being tongue-in-cheek, because I have to disagree with his statement. There is nothing in any document, either past or present, that defines being a "good, patriotic American" by glueing oneself to the "idiot box" (my father's term for the TV) every year to watch 22 thugs showing how stupid they really are. If you want to be entertained by blood sports, maybe we should take the gloves away from boxers and give them sharp, pointey objects...
I can be just as much a "good, patriotic American" when I watch baseball, or the Olympics... Besides, any red-blooded, American male should be watching women in skimpy outfits (gymnasts, track-and-field athletes, etc.) instead of men in tight pants! (Tongue in cheek, maybe.)
(Says the RIAA, et al): You are not supposed to feel 'warm' and 'fuzzy.' You are supposed to be protected from your own foolishness, Comrade.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of {Microsoft, RIAA, Disney, etc...}
I remember "I, Robot" being a collection of short stories. I have "The Complete Robot" which is supposed to be a compilation of the Robot anthologies and other robot short stories that didn't make it into the Robot anthologies. One of the anthologies mentioned was "I, Robot."
Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me...
In the case of the two people with the same names: first one to the net wins. If the musician was slow to getting a web site up, and someone else with the same name gets there first, he loses.
.com, then let them do it. If they are not willing to pay, see above.
In the case of the individual with the nissan.com domain, if Nissan Motors is willing to pay for moving Mr. Nissan to a TLD that is not
Both of these cases are similar to the incident in Scotland in which a 100+ year old restaurant was sued my McDonald's because they had the same name. The courts in Scotland found for the defendant because they used the name generations before the founder of McDonald's was born.
As in the Subject: line, just my $0.02 worth.
I have the Nomand IIc with 128 Mb internal memory, USB port, and a smart media socket that will take up to (and including) a 128 Mb card. I have it working with Slackware 8.1 using command line tools and I'm looking for a graphical tool. I remember from the docs that it is software upgradeable so Creative Labs *may* add ogg support at a later date. Or they may not. Only the folks at Creative Labs know for certain.
I learned Fortran 77 in college, my father learned an earlier version when he was in college. It is ugly, clumsy, strange, and very, very good for doing scientific calculation because it was designed as a scientific calculation language. Anyone who uses it for anything else is going to feel a lot of pain, just as they would if they tried to use other languages for doing calculations, or Cobol for anything at all.
Just my $0.02 worth.
For those of you who aren't aware, BAAF is working in cooperation with Anime Expo. The people who run AX are the worst convention committee in the world. I wonder how much the AX crew has to do BAAF. If it is a lot, it is going to a very bad weekend.
Some good advice: go to ConJose (the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention) instead. Details at www.conjose.org.
Normally I wouldn't want the Fed to legislate technology, but I think it's time to make Asimov's Laws of Robotics a requirement for any robot created in or imported into the US. We could very well have R. Giskard, or something (someone?) like it (him?), in the next 50 years.
I had a motherboard (a Tyan Tomcat IIID) that when new couldn't boot from LS-120 or Zip drives. One quick BIOS upgrade later, and now I could. This is one example of what happens before the OS loads.
As much as I like SCO OperServer I knew it's days were numbered when SCO acquired and updated Unixware. But not porting OpenUnix (the successor to Unixware) to the IA-64 plaform is a big mistake. It will mean that the AT&T source will not be represented on Intel's new processor.
Technicly speaking hookers suck, they don't blow.
You must be reading some VERY old info if you think SCO Unix requires an additional license for TCP/IP. It has been standard in SCO since the first release of OpenDesktop.
The only proprietary OS I would leave SCO OpenServer for is SCO Unixware (or it's successor Caldera OpenUnix). Microsoft both blows and sucks. Solaris isn't Unix. And Linux (though I love it) can't get the support it needs from critical systems vendors because they are being bought or brainwashed by Der Fhurer of Redmond.
Once again, my $0.02 worth.
OpenUnix 8 is the successor to Unixware 7. Unixware was created by Novel based on the SysV R4 code, when SCO bought it they continued working on it and got it up to SysV R5. Then Caldera bought most of SCO, and created OpenUnix 8 which is a merger of the SVR5 Unixware and many features from Linux.
SCO OpenServer 5 is based on SysV R3. It does not suck, and it does do all of the things Bill Gates claims Windows does only better and much more stable.
If Caldera has no interest in porting Unix to the IA-64 platform, it is now time to open source the AT&T Unix code base. I would love to have several proprietary Unix features available to the world (pg for one)...
I've used SCO Unix since the OpenDesktop days and I like it!
Just my $0.02 worth.
Would this tax include items sold in the dealer's rooms at SF conventions? What a nightmare that would be for the people organizing small relaxacons (like LA LA CON). Also, how could we, the SF fans, be certain that this money is really going to NASA and not into the general fund, or worse yet into the pockets of legislators.
For some reason I'm ending up at www.camelotnaturals.com when I try to go to www.perlbox.org. I tried to do a nslookup of both and I get the same IP address. Does anybody know what the real IP address of www.perlbox.org is?
TIA
(dazed and confused behind two layers of Microsoft Proxy Server...)
I agree that Lucas's original intent was not to create a modern mythological tale, but to create a modern Saturday Afternoon SF serial (only with a much larger budget). But to call SF "mere" is to insult hundreds of writers who have sweated blood over their work. Remember that when William Shakespere was writting, his work was "merely" accepted by the general populace as an afternoons distraction. It was only after his death that he had been evelvated to the level of literary god-hood.
The author of the article sounded like some Literary Snob...
After reading this article and the way it makes me feel, I'm starting to understand the Islamic Terrorist. Alomst. The difference is I want to destroy parts of my own country (Redmond, Washington) not somebody elses.
I bought this CD a few days ago and put it in my PC at work. It played with no problems.
I wonder what it would do under Linux? I must try this at home...
Work system info: IBM PC 300PL, Win2K (5.00.2195 Service Pack 1), Windows Media Player v7.01.00.3055