The source to a Windows module isn't open until you can edit it, compile it, and produce an object file that could be loaded into a running system, or booted as the running system.
Until then, it's a disservice to OSS to acquiesce and call what Microsoft is doing "opening their source" even if that's what they call it.
Stop thinking of them as huge drives, and start thinking of them as high density drives. The more information you store in a linear millimeter, the faster you can read it off the platter for a given RPM. It doesn't make any sense to create a high density 10Gb drive that'd have a tiny platter, or a normal sized platter with only a tiny portion of the surface utilized. What a waste.
There's a 200 car pile up, but you want to blame the blonde, just because of the other 199 TV watchers and cell-phone talkers, she was the first to blow it? What about the slashdotter in the Gremlin next to her who didn't see her swerve because he was watching The Making of LOTR:ROTK while encoding and beaming a pirate video stream as a test of the 802.11 free metropolitan WAN set up by his LUG using autonomous Aibos equipped with access points which roamed the city according to directions from a distributed program that moved the robot dogs around to optimize coverage at any moment under the control of a clever algorithm? What about that?
Also, here's another serious question. Say I publish a cool Lego Mindstorm project on my website, with a bunch of JPEGs. I'm hosted via a cable modem, so if I exceed a certain amount of bandwidth, I'm SOL and have to pay more money. Some guy finds my website, and submits it to Slashdot. Suddenly, my traffic spikes, and I'm over my monthly limit in just 24 hours. Is that fair?
Is your cable provider's pricing policy fair? Are the telecom regulations that force you to choosing the one and only cable provider, or stick with dialup fair? How is it any of my concern that you can't afford to host your website in your area of residence?
But even more imporant, if you had posted the policy, and gotten slashdotted anyway, could you afford the attorney's fees needed to attempt to enforce your policy, or collect damages for the violation? I think if you can't afford the bandwidth, you sure as hell can't afford an attorney. So your policy, if it existed, would be worthless anyhow.
In other words, why are YOU getting your panties twisted over this issue? It's not like you could actually enforce your policy if it was posted. Sheesh! It seems like you went out of your way to invent an imaginary unfair situation, just so you could get all steamed up over something that hasn't actually happened.
I'm just curious, but how often have you desperately wanted to post a website, yet found out you couldn't because you wouldn't be able to afford a slashdotting?
...... with a few mod rewrite rules any site that doesnt wish to be linked to can redirect the request.
Interesting thought: what if the sites with the stupid no-linking policies are the ones running the stupid web servers that can't do what mod_rewrite makes easy? I wonder if Netcraft can confirm that most of the sites with stupid polices have lame-ass web server software that can't easily do conditional redirects?
"The most important thing the Powell commission will do is eliminate all the rules that proactively prevent telecommunications and media companies from entering new lines of business," said Blair Levin, an FCC official in the Clinton administration who now analyzes regulatory policy for the investment firm Legg Mason Wood Johnny Walker Red Label Solomon Smith Barney Dreyfuss Merrill Lynch Wal-Mart Inc.
"We are clearly going to have a lot of consolidation. The question is, is the nature of technology such that we can still get the vibrant competition that you would want?"
Ok, so I exaggerated the name of the guy's paycheck-writer a little bit. But I thought it was funny that this guy was talking about massive consolidation with a business card that reads like his does.:)
Hell, they could even get creative about it and charge more for road-damaging SUV's, which some other posters have mentioned.
And while we're at it, let's tax parents for school-clogging kids. Oh wait. We already do. Even I get taxed, and I don't have any kids clogging the schools. So make the Tercel and Accord drivers carry some of my burden, since I am made to carry some of theirs. Or let me off the hook for school taxes!
Don't these stupid moon-shot-was-faked TV shows on the Redneck Network (TNT) basically libel anyone who was involved with the moon shots, calling them liars and frauds?
A civil lawsuit against these wackos might be the most cost-effective solution to getting them to shut the hell up.
I can't sign up for Speakeasy until DTV has de-installed their service from my line. But no one at DirectvDSL is answering the phone, there's only a recording telling me what I already know, that they are going out of business. But no one will take my call so I can cancel.
My basic thesis is that PVRs + Satellite will eat cable's lunch
Which is a good thing. Cable sucks.
It is the case that I suggested that if a Supreme Court case was brought on the legality of each feature of PVRs were brought, some would lose.
But even if you win, I still would not buy your lousy cable service, at any price. If it was offered to me for free, I would refuse to allow the cable to enter my premises. In fact, I already have free basic cable from my homeowner's association. I cut the cable short and shoved the remainder into the wall and installed a cover plate. Then I painted over it. Good riddance.
I also suggested an alternative business model to make everybody happy to avoid the all-or-nothing result that has been occurring in the RIAA vs. Napster wars.
I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay).
I think that business model sucks green canal water. Why would I ever agree to something like that? What's in it for me that I don't already have in spades with the current service I get from DirecTV w/ TiVo? Abso-fraggin-lutely NOTHING. So take a walk, loser.
That would be equivalent to $10/thousand commercials skipped. I think that's reasonable.
I think you're a greedy pig, and your wife is not only too stupid to operate a PVR, she's a crack hoe - ask Taco, he's done her in return for a rock. So go fuck yourself and the lame-ass business plan you rode in on.
I also predicted that this dynamic combined with competition between satellite and cable would ultimately make both services free.
Cable is not free at any price. Forget it. I don't want free satellite. I want a quality picture and no bullshit. DirecTV delivers that, so I'll stick with them. I also get my broadband from them, so eat it! Bwahahaha!
I don't know the answer to your question. I suspect it is the same answer for my question:
Why, if I turn off Javascript in IE, must I always and forever receive a popup warning me the website may not work as designed with my current security settings. I KNOW IT MIGHT NOT WORK AS DESIGNED, THAT IS THE ENTIRE FREAKING POINT, SO STOP REMINDING ME. There appears to be no way to have scripting disabled, and avoid the constant reminder that I'm "missing out." I resorted to PushTheFreakinButton (PTFB) to press that OK button for me every time the security popup appears. Is this not the stupidest thing you have ever heard: I gotta get a 3rd poarty utility to push a button that ought not to be there in the first place? Geez!
That game rocks. EA and Westwood did a good job. I've been playing for a few weeks now, and have finally cancelled my AO account. Anarchy Online was silly as a space-based MMORPG, mostly because players fight mobs by standing two feet away and shooting at each other point blank for five minutes until someone dies. Earth: Above and Beyond avoids that embarrassment by dropping the FP planetside combat, and allowing for space combat only.
Now, when you fight a mob, you're in a ship standing nose-to-nose, shooting at each other point blank for five minutes until someone dies. This is much more believable and engrossing.
This process can only be stopped with an armed revolution.
And when you're arrested for fomenting revolution, and held incommunicado without counsel, you'll be crying for a lawyer - any lawyer - to take your case.
Back in high school, every computer in the entire building was running Windows 98.
Hah! Back in my high school, every computer in the building was running a BASIC interpreter, which we could type programs to over a 1200 baud teletype. Did I mention there was only one computer, and it occupied the entire building?
Correct me if I am wrong, but taking successful online publications and tying them to an struggling, unwanted online service seems so very... 1998. Doesn't it?
If the "drones" get tired of being yelled at, their employer will start having to pay the "drones" more to keep them on staff. Or else the employer will have to spend more on training new staff and dealing with a high turnover rate. Either way, the cost of doing this kind of marketing is raised for the corporation that wants to do it. Higher costs are understood immediately, and are probabky the only thing that can move them to curb their enthusiasm for this kind of activity.
The thing that makes EQ so much fun is the game is so utterly massive and everything you see and everyone you talk to just might have something for you to do.
Fetch me a boat anchor.
Quests are what make mmmorpg's so much fun.
Deliver this silver pail.
And what do quests get you? That's right, ph4t l3wt.
The effect you are thinking of is called the Yarkovsky effect. The asteroid must rotate for it to come about. What happens is that the afternoon side of the asteroid, having been exposed to the sun longer, is warmer than the morning side and so it radiates more energy, mostly infrared, into space than the morning side. Obviously, the asteroid must rotate for there to be a morning side and a afternoon side.
How this small net force affects the asteroid's orbit depends on the orientation and direction of the asteroid's spin axis. From this month's Astronomy magazine:If the spin goes one way, Yarkovsky thrust adds to the orbital speed and the asteroid moves outward, away from the sun. If the asteroid rotates the other way, Yarkovsky thrust slows the asteroid's orbital velocity, and it draws closer to the sun.
"Painting" the asteroid with a material to alter its absorption and re-radiation of solar energy is very likely to be the most cost-effective method for altering an asteroid's orbit. It may even be the most practical method, assuming that we have enough time to allow the small change in thrust to alter the orbit enough to cause a miss.
There is an asteroid that is a very likely candidate for this treatment. 1950 DA was discovered and lost over 50 years ago, but was recovered on Dec 31, 2000, and was recognized as the long lost asteroid soon afterwards. With a 50-year basline to work with, its orbit was found to be in 11 to 5 resonance with Earth, which has the effect of making predictions reliable out to several hundred years. In the year 2641, the resonance will begin to decompose, sending the asteroid into a more chaotic phase of its orbital evolution. But the reliability holds long enough for scientists to recognize that there is a 1 in 300 chance of 1950 DA striking the Earth in the year 2880. This is the highest chance of collision ever estimated for any asteroid, and due to the resonance effects, it is considered very reliable.
So sometime during the next 900 years or so, we will probably have to decide that an attempt to alter its orbit is necessary. The sooner we act, the more likely we will succeed. 1950 DA is about 1.1 km in diameter, which would directly destroy an area the size of Wisconsin upon impact, and cause widespread devastation over a continent-wide area. But as little as a few tons of white chalk spread over one hemisphere could alter the Yarkovsky effect enough to change its orbit sufficiently over the next few centuries to complete avert any chance of impact.
This year's showers are attributed to the 1767 and 1866 apparitions of Temple-Tuttle. The proximity of the comet to Earth has little to do with the intensity of the storms. Earth intersects the heaviest portions of the dust streams around the same time that the comet nears perihelion. But the dust streams that the Earth actually intersects were laid down during perihelion passages that occurred decades or even centuries earlier.
So the distance of the comet from Earth at its next perihelion is no predictor of the intensity of the storms that may occur then.
What is wrong with your company's policies that they prevent you from using more secure, or otherwise superior alternatives, for purely non-technical reasons?
As always Taco, you are right on the mark. They'll get a lot of cash anyway, and this clearly justifies piracy.
Where did he say it justifies anything? Can it be said that maybe the movie studios are over-reacting, while at the same time not condoning piracy? Can I shoot Jehovah's Witnesses who trespass on my property? Do property rights trump all other rights?
Who needs basic IP property right when you can have movies for free?
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The source to a Windows module isn't open until you can edit it, compile it, and produce an object file that could be loaded into a running system, or booted as the running system.
Until then, it's a disservice to OSS to acquiesce and call what Microsoft is doing "opening their source" even if that's what they call it.
Stop thinking of them as huge drives, and start thinking of them as high density drives. The more information you store in a linear millimeter, the faster you can read it off the platter for a given RPM. It doesn't make any sense to create a high density 10Gb drive that'd have a tiny platter, or a normal sized platter with only a tiny portion of the surface utilized. What a waste.
There's a 200 car pile up, but you want to blame the blonde, just because of the other 199 TV watchers and cell-phone talkers, she was the first to blow it? What about the slashdotter in the Gremlin next to her who didn't see her swerve because he was watching The Making of LOTR:ROTK while encoding and beaming a pirate video stream as a test of the 802.11 free metropolitan WAN set up by his LUG using autonomous Aibos equipped with access points which roamed the city according to directions from a distributed program that moved the robot dogs around to optimize coverage at any moment under the control of a clever algorithm? What about that?
Also, here's another serious question. Say I publish a cool Lego Mindstorm project on my website, with a bunch of JPEGs. I'm hosted via a cable modem, so if I exceed a certain amount of bandwidth, I'm SOL and have to pay more money. Some guy finds my website, and submits it to Slashdot. Suddenly, my traffic spikes, and I'm over my monthly limit in just 24 hours. Is that fair?
Is your cable provider's pricing policy fair? Are the telecom regulations that force you to choosing the one and only cable provider, or stick with dialup fair? How is it any of my concern that you can't afford to host your website in your area of residence?
But even more imporant, if you had posted the policy, and gotten slashdotted anyway, could you afford the attorney's fees needed to attempt to enforce your policy, or collect damages for the violation? I think if you can't afford the bandwidth, you sure as hell can't afford an attorney. So your policy, if it existed, would be worthless anyhow.
In other words, why are YOU getting your panties twisted over this issue? It's not like you could actually enforce your policy if it was posted. Sheesh! It seems like you went out of your way to invent an imaginary unfair situation, just so you could get all steamed up over something that hasn't actually happened.
I'm just curious, but how often have you desperately wanted to post a website, yet found out you couldn't because you wouldn't be able to afford a slashdotting?
...... with a few mod rewrite rules any site that doesnt wish to be linked to can redirect the request.
Interesting thought: what if the sites with the stupid no-linking policies are the ones running the stupid web servers that can't do what mod_rewrite makes easy? I wonder if Netcraft can confirm that most of the sites with stupid polices have lame-ass web server software that can't easily do conditional redirects?
"The most important thing the Powell commission will do is eliminate all the rules that proactively prevent telecommunications and media companies from entering new lines of business," said Blair Levin, an FCC official in the Clinton administration who now analyzes regulatory policy for the investment firm Legg Mason Wood Johnny Walker Red Label Solomon Smith Barney Dreyfuss Merrill Lynch Wal-Mart Inc.
:)
"We are clearly going to have a lot of consolidation. The question is, is the nature of technology such that we can still get the vibrant competition that you would want?"
Ok, so I exaggerated the name of the guy's paycheck-writer a little bit. But I thought it was funny that this guy was talking about massive consolidation with a business card that reads like his does.
Hell, they could even get creative about it and charge more for road-damaging SUV's, which some other posters have mentioned.
And while we're at it, let's tax parents for school-clogging kids. Oh wait. We already do. Even I get taxed, and I don't have any kids clogging the schools. So make the Tercel and Accord drivers carry some of my burden, since I am made to carry some of theirs. Or let me off the hook for school taxes!
This crap pisses me off.
Don't these stupid moon-shot-was-faked TV shows on the Redneck Network (TNT) basically libel anyone who was involved with the moon shots, calling them liars and frauds?
A civil lawsuit against these wackos might be the most cost-effective solution to getting them to shut the hell up.
suing, deficit
:)
Maybe they could afford to hire someone who is literate, too!
I can't sign up for Speakeasy until DTV has de-installed their service from my line. But no one at DirectvDSL is answering the phone, there's only a recording telling me what I already know, that they are going out of business. But no one will take my call so I can cancel.
Anyone else having this problem?
My basic thesis is that PVRs + Satellite will eat cable's lunch
Which is a good thing. Cable sucks.
It is the case that I suggested that if a Supreme Court case was brought on the legality of each feature of PVRs were brought, some would lose.
But even if you win, I still would not buy your lousy cable service, at any price. If it was offered to me for free, I would refuse to allow the cable to enter my premises. In fact, I already have free basic cable from my homeowner's association. I cut the cable short and shoved the remainder into the wall and installed a cover plate. Then I painted over it. Good riddance.
I also suggested an alternative business model to make everybody happy to avoid the all-or-nothing result that has been occurring in the RIAA vs. Napster wars.
I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay).
I think that business model sucks green canal water. Why would I ever agree to something like that? What's in it for me that I don't already have in spades with the current service I get from DirecTV w/ TiVo? Abso-fraggin-lutely NOTHING. So take a walk, loser.
That would be equivalent to $10/thousand commercials skipped. I think that's reasonable.
I think you're a greedy pig, and your wife is not only too stupid to operate a PVR, she's a crack hoe - ask Taco, he's done her in return for a rock. So go fuck yourself and the lame-ass business plan you rode in on.
I also predicted that this dynamic combined with competition between satellite and cable would ultimately make both services free.
Cable is not free at any price. Forget it. I don't want free satellite. I want a quality picture and no bullshit. DirecTV delivers that, so I'll stick with them. I also get my broadband from them, so eat it! Bwahahaha!
I don't know the answer to your question. I suspect it is the same answer for my question:
Why, if I turn off Javascript in IE, must I always and forever receive a popup warning me the website may not work as designed with my current security settings. I KNOW IT MIGHT NOT WORK AS DESIGNED, THAT IS THE ENTIRE FREAKING POINT, SO STOP REMINDING ME. There appears to be no way to have scripting disabled, and avoid the constant reminder that I'm "missing out." I resorted to PushTheFreakinButton (PTFB) to press that OK button for me every time the security popup appears. Is this not the stupidest thing you have ever heard: I gotta get a 3rd poarty utility to push a button that ought not to be there in the first place? Geez!
...Earth: Above and Beyond...
That game rocks. EA and Westwood did a good job. I've been playing for a few weeks now, and have finally cancelled my AO account. Anarchy Online was silly as a space-based MMORPG, mostly because players fight mobs by standing two feet away and shooting at each other point blank for five minutes until someone dies. Earth: Above and Beyond avoids that embarrassment by dropping the FP planetside combat, and allowing for space combat only.
Now, when you fight a mob, you're in a ship standing nose-to-nose, shooting at each other point blank for five minutes until someone dies. This is much more believable and engrossing.
This process can only be stopped with an armed revolution.
And when you're arrested for fomenting revolution, and held incommunicado without counsel, you'll be crying for a lawyer - any lawyer - to take your case.
Back in high school, every computer in the entire building was running Windows 98.
Hah! Back in my high school, every computer in the building was running a BASIC interpreter, which we could type programs to over a 1200 baud teletype. Did I mention there was only one computer, and it occupied the entire building?
Correct me if I am wrong, but taking successful online publications and tying them to an struggling, unwanted online service seems so very... 1998. Doesn't it?
If the "drones" get tired of being yelled at, their employer will start having to pay the "drones" more to keep them on staff. Or else the employer will have to spend more on training new staff and dealing with a high turnover rate. Either way, the cost of doing this kind of marketing is raised for the corporation that wants to do it. Higher costs are understood immediately, and are probabky the only thing that can move them to curb their enthusiasm for this kind of activity.
Why do you think it's right for a seller of a physical product to tell you what you may or may not do with that product after the lawful sale?
Do we, as consumers, have property rights, or don't we?
The thing that makes EQ so much fun is the game is so utterly massive and everything you see and everyone you talk to just might have something for you to do.
Fetch me a boat anchor.
Quests are what make mmmorpg's so much fun.
Deliver this silver pail.
And what do quests get you? That's right, ph4t l3wt.
+3 Adamantine Helm of Laughingstock, schweet!
The effect you are thinking of is called the Yarkovsky effect. The asteroid must rotate for it to come about. What happens is that the afternoon side of the asteroid, having been exposed to the sun longer, is warmer than the morning side and so it radiates more energy, mostly infrared, into space than the morning side. Obviously, the asteroid must rotate for there to be a morning side and a afternoon side.
How this small net force affects the asteroid's orbit depends on the orientation and direction of the asteroid's spin axis. From this month's Astronomy magazine: If the spin goes one way, Yarkovsky thrust adds to the orbital speed and the asteroid moves outward, away from the sun. If the asteroid rotates the other way, Yarkovsky thrust slows the asteroid's orbital velocity, and it draws closer to the sun.
"Painting" the asteroid with a material to alter its absorption and re-radiation of solar energy is very likely to be the most cost-effective method for altering an asteroid's orbit. It may even be the most practical method, assuming that we have enough time to allow the small change in thrust to alter the orbit enough to cause a miss.
There is an asteroid that is a very likely candidate for this treatment. 1950 DA was discovered and lost over 50 years ago, but was recovered on Dec 31, 2000, and was recognized as the long lost asteroid soon afterwards. With a 50-year basline to work with, its orbit was found to be in 11 to 5 resonance with Earth, which has the effect of making predictions reliable out to several hundred years. In the year 2641, the resonance will begin to decompose, sending the asteroid into a more chaotic phase of its orbital evolution. But the reliability holds long enough for scientists to recognize that there is a 1 in 300 chance of 1950 DA striking the Earth in the year 2880. This is the highest chance of collision ever estimated for any asteroid, and due to the resonance effects, it is considered very reliable.
So sometime during the next 900 years or so, we will probably have to decide that an attempt to alter its orbit is necessary. The sooner we act, the more likely we will succeed. 1950 DA is about 1.1 km in diameter, which would directly destroy an area the size of Wisconsin upon impact, and cause widespread devastation over a continent-wide area. But as little as a few tons of white chalk spread over one hemisphere could alter the Yarkovsky effect enough to change its orbit sufficiently over the next few centuries to complete avert any chance of impact.
Actually, I have found that not listening to right-wing talk radio to be very salvific. That and a 7-night Caribbean cruise. :)
This year's showers are attributed to the 1767 and 1866 apparitions of Temple-Tuttle. The proximity of the comet to Earth has little to do with the intensity of the storms. Earth intersects the heaviest portions of the dust streams around the same time that the comet nears perihelion. But the dust streams that the Earth actually intersects were laid down during perihelion passages that occurred decades or even centuries earlier.
So the distance of the comet from Earth at its next perihelion is no predictor of the intensity of the storms that may occur then.
What is wrong with your company's policies that they prevent you from using more secure, or otherwise superior alternatives, for purely non-technical reasons?
As always Taco, you are right on the mark. They'll get a lot of cash anyway, and this clearly justifies piracy.
Where did he say it justifies anything? Can it be said that maybe the movie studios are over-reacting, while at the same time not condoning piracy? Can I shoot Jehovah's Witnesses who trespass on my property? Do property rights trump all other rights?
Who needs basic IP property right when you can have movies for free?
Exactly.