quite an identical article was printed about 2 month ago in German computer magazine c't. Computerworld is really not very fast to translate it into English.
Nothing to see here, move along, btw.
Ahem. While I get your point, there is no question your demands are -let's say- a little bit extreme.
Not that insightful, too, check the legislature: Aside from SCo having to pay the court fees and some top managers possibly having to face fraud cases, there can't be much more justice than SCO losing this particular court case.
Let money do the rest. No case, no investors, no money, no lawyers, no supporters, no nuissance.
Ok. You're right. Sorry to post misinformation (will check on my theses next time, I promise. Especially the fact that he was mentioned in the Iliad is some kind of errr most embarrasing.) I was mislead by the nature of the way Asclepios' death is described: Reviving a dead mortal, he was killed by Zeus with a strike of lightning, because he dared to lean up against the will of the gods (and annoyed Hades). Later greek and (hellenistically touched) Roman writers have adopted this motive and made a martyr of the medician, which couldn't happen in an early period of greek religion where the gods would never have to justify themselves before mere mortals (in contract to especially late Athen and Roman culture where man became the measure of things).
Thank you very much for your correction!
No it can't be. The Asclepios saga, especially the snake rod part, is typical of later greek mythologies (which I can't prove, because I didnÄt look anything up, it just fits the pattern of the heroic human struggling agains the gods, which is a common subject in later greek antique but not in greek texts before 500bc), while the Pentateuch is roughly dated around 500bc or in even older dates (up to 1500bc for some parts, which have been traded orally).
Guess that's what you call "black". It absorbs visible light. doh. (who modded this?)
seriously, black is the "non-color" state of a surface that does not reflect or emit otherwise any visible light.
and, yes, black cars tend to get hot in summer.
sorry to disappoint you: you don't have to have a lot of knowledge. Every biological production of methane (or any other substance) is in its nature a chain of chemical reactions. While the characteristics of life may differ on different planets, chemistry always stays the same- giving you at least the energy demand (or benefits) of a reaction that gives the detected amount of CH4 in an environment likes Mars' atmosphere from the substances there.
To make an estimation about how much living mass would be able to produce such an amount of methane, one has to take into consideration that it is only can be the waste (final product) of the biological processes on mars - and if you consider that methane itself still has a lot of potential usable energy stored in its covalent electon bindings, you get an idea of how much raw material has to be processed every second to make up for the natural (photonically based) decay of methane. (methane reacts with oxygen as well as with sulfur as well as ammonia, water and halogens)
Point is: If one assumes Mars' atmosphere to be rather stable the next (and past) 10^4 years, and if the production of methane there is caused biologically, then there has to be some kind of a closed substance cycle, that takes the decayed components of methane, and makes something biologically exploitable of it. Fact is: Chemistry doesn't know any reaction that could do this in such a large scale under the given circumstances, and if it was based on biological processes (like photosynthesis), it could only happen on the upper levels of Mars' atmosphere, and there in such a high density that it is almost impossible to ignore if one descends through atmosphere or looks at it from any closer orbit.
for christs sake, really, 100 microseconds switching time?
best you can get from that is 10kHz oscillator (at optimal circumstances...).
I think this experiment is interesting for other reasons than that it might one day replace non volatile memory types (which I highly doubt considering it s competitors to be FLASH, MRAM and others (somebody remembering millipede?)).
It's interesting because someone actually used protein-based semi-crystaline surfaces in a way that could be compared to a classical neuron- But the article is as informative as a picture of an unilluminated cave at night.
Me too. But I didn't know they were good for anything else than having 3 free artifacts in the first turn, giving me the opportunity to bring a Frogmit (2/2, 4 Mana with affinity for artifacts) in before anyone else could play his creatures.. OMG... did I play like a mindless pile of mud those days...
(artifact lands are banned these days?! or just restricted? are ornithopters restricted too?)
It's more of a prove of the authors incompetence.
Peptides are certain linked molecules. "Peptide" is an scientific expression for "linked aminoacids", nothing more, nothing less.
Putting it in quotes is as if you put "computer" or "internet" in qoutes. You make obvious your neither part of "the scene" nor have a clue what you're writing about.
Well here in west-northern Germany we usually don't have the problems At&T seems to have.
Fibre to home is as good as unavailable (there may be some companies who have some kind of expensive link to their ISP),
but good ol' DSL via the normal telefon copper wire goes up to 6Mb/s in Hamburg, and in Gütersloh (a mid-sized town) eg ISPs offer speeds up to 20Mbit/s via copper. (in former eastern Germany DSL is unavailable in some (few) areas dueto the fact that in the early 1990's, when the reunion of Germany was in progress, the Telekom decided to get fibre up to the OVZ (Ortsverteilerzentralen, the 1m x 20 cm x 60cm boxes at every street corner) prohibiting cheap DSL in central CIXes)
So what problem does AT&T have? using old infrastructure, avoiding investions into recent routers? Cisco's expensive, but why should you care if your costumers change their ISP because of your slowness.
Yet another example of perfect marketing by Google:
1.make a more-than-average type of product, and establish it on the market. 2.Make everyone use it.
2.1Do that by quality
2.2 by offering the best possible solution for someone who just wants to USE it
2.3 by being the one who lets other people use it (by offering an API)
TADA
3. World Dominance
I don't hate Google, but isn't it a bit a strange thing that "fair use" methods like "letting others use your product for both's advantage" leads to some kind of strange quasi-monopolism? is that something the Open-Source-Community has to worry about?
Don't let the facts bite you. Get bitten here instead.
In Germany, there is the so-called GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte) [society for musicial performance and mechanical reproduction rights], which gets share of the prices on CDRs, music tapes... and the profit on Audio-CDs. The artists get their share of this money, no matter how often they've been copied or wheter it is still legal to copy a certain CD (Germany has made it illegal, not punishable, to circumvent technical copy restrictions...).
The problem is that this society is a) to expensive and b) far to complex for the small musician out on the streets to take advantage of. So, instead of getting money for being heard, he pays money for his own blank CDRs, while Sony etc keep getting the big shares.
On the other hand, that directive is really quite unsatisfacting, as it leaves holes for every big company to establish their own restrictioning system instead of making things easier and more reliable for both, listeners and creators.
as posted before, this technology is called "transformator". It uses alternated magnetical fields over a copper coil.
Another technology is known to use electrical high-frequency fields. Some of you may have heard of it. You take an oscilating circuit, say a capacitor-resistor-transistor array or more complex, but less thermosensitive, a PLL. You connect this to a cable. The other end of that cable is unconnect. Make that cable long the n-th piece of the distance a light beam would travel in a oscillation period (lambda / n). Tada! here you go: energy from the oscillating circuit "disappears".
This energy can be retained, using a similiar cable (so-called "antenna" in both cases).
Now that has advantages: The energy will only affect cables, chips, PCB connections etc of a length similiar to lambda/n .
(BTW: why doesn't slashdot let me use the greek symbol?)
It can be quite efficient, beam formers are easy to build, and the distance can be varied.
Ah, and that technology goes back to a man named Marconi. I hope you know what I mean by now.
That sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm dreaming of a "textual exchange service center" for pupils at my school or even schools in whole Hamburg/Germany. (in other words: a good, dialer-free, non advertising, trusted, backfeeded homework exchanger).
I've heard of Lucene through my fav. Computer magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct), but I was more interested in indexing algorithm at that time.
So how much weight does the book give into algorithms? Is there anyone out there who's as mathematically/scientific interested in that topic as me?
--- You've been intentionally poked. Prepare to get an access violation;)
Mots comments from/.ers I've read so far sound like: If they HAD known, but 3.1 was worse, it was a pain in the ass
That made me eat my heart out: I'm still administrating several 95er machines of people who didn't make it to a machine which could run win2k or XP. I'm gathering win98 licences to stock those up. But for me at last, the 95 era isn't over.
(The first thing I've made after buying myself a new PC however was installing Debian. I wouldn't stand one more installation without internet access, German keyboard config and so. Ah and I couldn't stand windows98.)
so- this is not the past, it's not a nightmare. IT'S HELL ON EARTH.
--- eat my heart out
That seems to be the point: using BitTorrent to distribute free(as in beer) content. BitTorrent is able to distribute identical files among many users fast (and scales well even with HUGE user bases).
But companies need to make money. And anime distributors need to sell videos. But BitTorrent is a rather open system. You can use a tracker with authentication, but that won't work with things like the dynamic tracker protocoll and so an developing. You'll have to secure the actual content. How can that be made? You'll have to encrypt it somehow. But because Bittorrent will only distribute identical files, you'll have to use one encrypted version for all- that means you'll need a server giving away "viewing keys"- better known as active DRM.
so this use of open software and protocolls will actually enforce DRM -- watch what you'Re doing.
---the tail will bite you
mambo is dead- let lambada live!
or was it tchachaha? or are any developers now not only living under a line but also dancing below one (aka Limbo)
Conclusion: we may expect inspired names for the forks that propably descend of this
---
there's only one thing worse than biting yourself in your arse. get bitten.
I've read my comment and came to the conclusion that there could be a crime. The selling of property, virtual or physically present, you have no right to possess could be judged as crime under certain circumstances - and judications. (I don't know how it is for example in the US or here in Germany)
So if there is a civil process in which it is decided that the botter actually took advantage of the lack of ability / knowledge to do something against his bot (however that trial could work), it'd be a case of fraud. mmh..
It's unethical anyways- ---
Be fair. Don't bite the hand that does not feed you.
Well that's the question.
There are three crime scenarios one could apply to this:
theft
mugging
fraud
As far as I'm concerned, theft means to me taking someone's possesions without asking. Mugging is like theft, but instead of simply not asking you use or threathen to use violence against your victim or a object/subject of special value to the victim. Actually, using a bot to automatically slash RPG-Characters cannot be called voilence because it does neither include physical violence nor a form of psychical violence. (Yes, I know it's annoying, but it's only a game)
after all, there's fraud left. Fraud is to take advantage of somebody's missing or wrong information. After all- users of the game propably didn't expect someone to bot 'em up... but who's betraying who here? I think they could possibly blame the author of the game, for not telling them explicitely that they could get virtually stolen.
Slashdot Mirror
quite an identical article was printed about 2 month ago in German computer magazine c't. Computerworld is really not very fast to translate it into English.
Nothing to see here, move along, btw.
Ahem. While I get your point, there is no question your demands are -let's say- a little bit extreme.
Not that insightful, too, check the legislature: Aside from SCo having to pay the court fees and some top managers possibly having to face fraud cases, there can't be much more justice than SCO losing this particular court case.
Let money do the rest. No case, no investors, no money, no lawyers, no supporters, no nuissance.
Why is parent not modded Funny? 'cmon Moderators, spend some points here
Ok. You're right. Sorry to post misinformation (will check on my theses next time, I promise. Especially the fact that he was mentioned in the Iliad is some kind of errr most embarrasing.)
I was mislead by the nature of the way Asclepios' death is described: Reviving a dead mortal, he was killed by Zeus with a strike of lightning, because he dared to lean up against the will of the gods (and annoyed Hades).
Later greek and (hellenistically touched) Roman writers have adopted this motive and made a martyr of the medician, which couldn't happen in an early period of greek religion where the gods would never have to justify themselves before mere mortals (in contract to especially late Athen and Roman culture where man became the measure of things).
Thank you very much for your correction!
No it can't be. The Asclepios saga, especially the snake rod part, is typical of later greek mythologies (which I can't prove, because I didnÄt look anything up, it just fits the pattern of the heroic human struggling agains the gods, which is a common subject in later greek antique but not in greek texts before 500bc), while the Pentateuch is roughly dated around 500bc or in even older dates (up to 1500bc for some parts, which have been traded orally).
I, for one, welcome our FIRST-INSIGHTFUL-COMMENT-ON-SLASHDOT-FOR-YEARS-Ove rloard.
bow to thy,
(never take me any serious)
Guess that's what you call "black". It absorbs visible light. doh. (who modded this?)
seriously, black is the "non-color" state of a surface that does not reflect or emit otherwise any visible light.
and, yes, black cars tend to get hot in summer.
sorry to disappoint you: you don't have to have a lot of knowledge. Every biological production of methane (or any other substance) is in its nature a chain of chemical reactions. While the characteristics of life may differ on different planets, chemistry always stays the same- giving you at least the energy demand (or benefits) of a reaction that gives the detected amount of CH4 in an environment likes Mars' atmosphere from the substances there.
To make an estimation about how much living mass would be able to produce such an amount of methane, one has to take into consideration that it is only can be the waste (final product) of the biological processes on mars - and if you consider that methane itself still has a lot of potential usable energy stored in its covalent electon bindings, you get an idea of how much raw material has to be processed every second to make up for the natural (photonically based) decay of methane. (methane reacts with oxygen as well as with sulfur as well as ammonia, water and halogens)
Point is: If one assumes Mars' atmosphere to be rather stable the next (and past) 10^4 years, and if the production of methane there is caused biologically, then there has to be some kind of a closed substance cycle, that takes the decayed components of methane, and makes something biologically exploitable of it. Fact is: Chemistry doesn't know any reaction that could do this in such a large scale under the given circumstances, and if it was based on biological processes (like photosynthesis), it could only happen on the upper levels of Mars' atmosphere, and there in such a high density that it is almost impossible to ignore if one descends through atmosphere or looks at it from any closer orbit.
for christs sake, really, 100 microseconds switching time?
best you can get from that is 10kHz oscillator (at optimal circumstances...).
I think this experiment is interesting for other reasons than that it might one day replace non volatile memory types (which I highly doubt considering it s competitors to be FLASH, MRAM and others (somebody remembering millipede?)).
It's interesting because someone actually used protein-based semi-crystaline surfaces in a way that could be compared to a classical neuron- But the article is as informative as a picture of an unilluminated cave at night.
It really tells some details. And BTW... MIRROR anyone?
Me too. But I didn't know they were good for anything else than having 3 free artifacts in the first turn, giving me the opportunity to bring a Frogmit (2/2, 4 Mana with affinity for artifacts) in before anyone else could play his creatures.. OMG... did I play like a mindless pile of mud those days...
(artifact lands are banned these days?! or just restricted? are ornithopters restricted too?)
It's more of a prove of the authors incompetence.
Peptides are certain linked molecules. "Peptide" is an scientific expression for "linked aminoacids", nothing more, nothing less.
Putting it in quotes is as if you put "computer" or "internet" in qoutes. You make obvious your neither part of "the scene" nor have a clue what you're writing about.
Well here in west-northern Germany we usually don't have the problems At&T seems to have.
Fibre to home is as good as unavailable (there may be some companies who have some kind of expensive link to their ISP), but good ol' DSL via the normal telefon copper wire goes up to 6Mb/s in Hamburg, and in Gütersloh (a mid-sized town) eg ISPs offer speeds up to 20Mbit/s via copper.
(in former eastern Germany DSL is unavailable in some (few) areas dueto the fact that in the early 1990's, when the reunion of Germany was in progress, the Telekom decided to get fibre up to the OVZ (Ortsverteilerzentralen, the 1m x 20 cm x 60cm boxes at every street corner) prohibiting cheap DSL in central CIXes)
So what problem does AT&T have? using old infrastructure, avoiding investions into recent routers? Cisco's expensive, but why should you care if your costumers change their ISP because of your slowness.
Imagine that running on a beowulf Cluster of Cell Processors, running Bochs to run... nevermind
no.
Yet another example of perfect marketing by Google:
1.make a more-than-average type of product, and establish it on the market.
2.Make everyone use it.
2.1Do that by quality
2.2 by offering the best possible solution for someone who just wants to USE it
2.3 by being the one who lets other people use it (by offering an API)
TADA
3. World Dominance
I don't hate Google, but isn't it a bit a strange thing that "fair use" methods like "letting others use your product for both's advantage" leads to some kind of strange quasi-monopolism?
is that something the Open-Source-Community has to worry about?
Don't let the facts bite you. Get bitten here instead.
In Germany, there is the so-called GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte) [society for musicial performance and mechanical reproduction rights], which gets share of the prices on CDRs, music tapes... and the profit on Audio-CDs. The artists get their share of this money, no matter how often they've been copied or wheter it is still legal to copy a certain CD (Germany has made it illegal, not punishable, to circumvent technical copy restrictions...).
The problem is that this society is a) to expensive and b) far to complex for the small musician out on the streets to take advantage of. So, instead of getting money for being heard, he pays money for his own blank CDRs, while Sony etc keep getting the big shares.
On the other hand, that directive is really quite unsatisfacting, as it leaves holes for every big company to establish their own restrictioning system instead of making things easier and more reliable for both, listeners and creators.
---don't get bitten/r
as posted before, this technology is called "transformator". It uses alternated magnetical fields over a copper coil.
Another technology is known to use electrical high-frequency fields. Some of you may have heard of it. You take an oscilating circuit, say a capacitor-resistor-transistor array or more complex, but less thermosensitive, a PLL. You connect this to a cable. The other end of that cable is unconnect. Make that cable long the n-th piece of the distance a light beam would travel in a oscillation period (lambda / n). Tada!
here you go: energy from the oscillating circuit "disappears".
This energy can be retained, using a similiar cable (so-called "antenna" in both cases).
Now that has advantages: The energy will only affect cables, chips, PCB connections etc of a length similiar to lambda/n .
(BTW: why doesn't slashdot let me use the greek symbol?)
It can be quite efficient, beam formers are easy to build, and the distance can be varied.
Ah, and that technology goes back to a man named Marconi. I hope you know what I mean by now.
That sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm dreaming of a "textual exchange service center" for pupils at my school or even schools in whole Hamburg/Germany. (in other words: a good, dialer-free, non advertising, trusted, backfeeded homework exchanger). ;)
I've heard of Lucene through my fav. Computer magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct), but I was more interested in indexing algorithm at that time.
So how much weight does the book give into algorithms? Is there anyone out there who's as mathematically/scientific interested in that topic as me?
---
You've been intentionally poked. Prepare to get an access violation
Mots comments from /.ers I've read so far sound like:
If they HAD known, but 3.1 was worse, it was a pain in the ass
That made me eat my heart out: I'm still administrating several 95er machines of people who didn't make it to a machine which could run win2k or XP. I'm gathering win98 licences to stock those up. But for me at last, the 95 era isn't over.
(The first thing I've made after buying myself a new PC however was installing Debian. I wouldn't stand one more installation without internet access, German keyboard config and so. Ah and I couldn't stand windows98.)
so- this is not the past, it's not a nightmare. IT'S HELL ON EARTH.
---
eat my heart out
That seems to be the point: using BitTorrent to distribute free(as in beer) content. BitTorrent is able to distribute identical files among many users fast (and scales well even with HUGE user bases).
But companies need to make money. And anime distributors need to sell videos. But BitTorrent is a rather open system. You can use a tracker with authentication, but that won't work with things like the dynamic tracker protocoll and so an developing. You'll have to secure the actual content. How can that be made? You'll have to encrypt it somehow. But because Bittorrent will only distribute identical files, you'll have to use one encrypted version for all- that means you'll need a server giving away "viewing keys"- better known as active DRM.
so this use of open software and protocolls will actually enforce DRM -- watch what you'Re doing.
---the tail will bite you
it's called dos2unix AFAIK and it's compiled (not perl or so)
mambo is dead- let lambada live! or was it tchachaha? or are any developers now not only living under a line but also dancing below one (aka Limbo)
Conclusion: we may expect inspired names for the forks that propably descend of this
---
there's only one thing worse than biting yourself in your arse. get bitten.
I've read my comment and came to the conclusion that there could be a crime. The selling of property, virtual or physically present, you have no right to possess could be judged as crime under certain circumstances - and judications. (I don't know how it is for example in the US or here in Germany)
So if there is a civil process in which it is decided that the botter actually took advantage of the lack of ability / knowledge to do something against his bot (however that trial could work), it'd be a case of fraud. mmh..
It's unethical anyways-
---
Be fair. Don't bite the hand that does not feed you.
There are three crime scenarios one could apply to this:
- theft
- mugging
- fraud
As far as I'm concerned, theft means to me taking someone's possesions without asking. Mugging is like theft, but instead of simply not asking you use or threathen to use violence against your victim or a objectafter all, there's fraud left. Fraud is to take advantage of somebody's missing or wrong information. After all- users of the game propably didn't expect someone to bot 'em up... but who's betraying who here? I think they could possibly blame the author of the game, for not telling them explicitely that they could get virtually stolen.