I found something bizzar on ModernHumorist this morning - "If poets wrote poems whose titles were anagrams of their names" (Like "Toilets", by T.S. Elliot) - just be sure to check out the one by William Shakespeare;)) The Dickenson one too - somebody put some work into those.
this guy goes into a psychiatrists office and the doc shows him some ink blots (rorschach test) - the first one reminds him of sex, the next one reminds him of sex, etc. The doc finally say, "I zee you are obsessed with sex", and the guy says, "Me? You're the one with all the dirty pictures".
Yes, but what they DONT tell you is that's it was a clever pre-planned bug intentionally planted so they can automatically update it when they got the payment and go ahead from the RIAA to install the DRM modules along with it, as publicly stated in the updated license agreement you agreed to when you clicked on the "I Agree" button under the agreement you didn't read that said the agreement may be changed at any time w/o having to notify you, and therefore all perfectly legal.
is 'circulation' - the reason those morons are so keen on keeping people on their 'hit' list is so they can go to their paying clients and say, "Look! You're message is reaching 250,000 potential customers". The more 'circulation' or ratings a paper, magazine or program has, the more they can charge for it. Nevermind the fact that 249,997 people have just associated $PRODUCT with annoying marketing tactics.
another thing is the Mini-Z's have proportional control. From what I've seen the MicroSizers are just full on/stop, slam bang to the right or left, difficult to control. Wasn't much fun to me.
[this was blatantly copied from http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/check.htm ]
Gift-giving is an integral part of the holiday season, and one is expected to expend not just money on the endeavor, but time and effort too. To write a check or enclose money in a card is to distill the process down to only one aspect of the tradition, arguably the least important. One, in effect, puts an explicit pricetag on a relationship, making a cold but straightforward assessment of that person's worth in the giver's life. It is for this reason etiquette frowns upon the practice -- though the cash might be welcome, the lack of sentiment behind the present is not.
They (pbs that is) say that part of Edison's popular success is that he grew up around telegraph offices, with reporters around, where he learned how to work with The Media, what they want, what it takes to get your story out.
However, setting records and getting into the Guinness book does require an official observer and records - it's hard to get away with going off and setting a record, then just ringing up the local paper and telling them about it. Anybody can fake that. The important thing is to have it measured, documented, verified and confirmed by someone the media trusts, sort of like web server certificates. It's not necessarily 'marketing' ( all of which is lies to me;)
Here's a brief page about some ibm tube logic modules, schematic for an 'inverter', etc. Anybody with an old 650 laying around I'll gladly cart it off for you.
No, gang, please - keep this is mind, nobody is trying to cause trouble. You see, there are hundreds of thousands of businesses throughout the world and they all have lots of great purchasing opportunities. As a volunteer group, we just want him to be aware of those purchase opportunties, that's all. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we simply want him to be a well informed, fully 'opted in' consumer.
I can see it now - you're falsly accused of something, your attorney comes up with a defense, but it turns out that defense is copyrighted. Now you owe TWO attorney's fees. They may as well just grab you by the ankles and shake you upside down to get every last penny out of your pockets. If an idiot judge can singlehandedly make 'business methods' patenable, I guess it won't be long before one of their own decides to make 'legal precedents' intellectual property.
Msft would never actually build the bridge, but they'd happily sell, at competitive price, a set of blueprints for new, inproved Advanced BridgeXP w/ patented extensions to the open High Level Traffic Shaping protocol (sorry, MsHLTS only works with MSHighWay) for a hefty fee and a legal disclaimer ("these blueprints provided AS IS w/o warranty express or implied as to useability or safety..."), but the state and taxpayers would have to do the construction. If any defects in the blueprints are found and corrected the state and taxpayers are responsible for obtaining new blueprints and the costs of implementing any corrections, incl wages of fitters, welders, construction equipment rentals, etc. Licensee of MSBridgeXP accepts all legal responsibilities for the safety of users, and indemnifies MSft of any and all risks. MSBridgeXP is protected by US and International copywrite treaties, and any unlicensed use will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Study / Counter Study
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· Score: 3, Interesting
A short time ago the chief chicken-littles of the International Association of Environmental Alarmists and Extreamists (IAEAE) were collectively diving under their beds over a study showing how nearly every sq. inch of the planet has been hideously despoiled by nasty ol' humanity. Well, now comes a counter-study (partly funded by Gordon Moore) which claims "46 percent of Earth is still wilderness" - a salve sure to sooth the conscience of dollar sign-blinking land developers and construction workers everywhere.
Thus proving that, like statistics, politicians can pick a study to prove any damn thing they want. Meanwhile the truth continues to elude the media manipulated public.
You can send me to hell, you can put me on the rack, you can drive bamboo shoots under my fingernails. Is that going to stop somebody from copying a CD for a friend or sending it over the Internet? Nope. Is widespread dilution of profits going to discourage progress in the sciences and useful arts? Probably. Is it going to limit what's made available in electronic format? Most likeley. You can lecture about paying for the costs of production untill you're blue in the face. Is any of that going to stop someone from duping a Harry Potter DVD for a friend who wants one? Not one bit. Everyone should pay for their material and drive under the speed limit. You can either get your undies in a wad over it all or just relax and enjoy the crisis.
Birds excrete their nitrogenous wastes, derived mostly from the breakdown of proteins, in the form of uric acid rather than urea as mammals do. Unlike urea, uric acid is almost insoluble in water, and is excreted in the form of crystals that form a semisolid white paste. Not needing to store liquid wastes, birds lack a bladder. Instead urine passes from the ureters into the cloaca, a common chamber for the passage of digestive and urinary wastes, as well as for reproductive products. A bird dropping usually contains both white uric acid crystals, and a concentrated mass of digestive wastes such as insect cuticle or seeds.
Most aquatic vertebrates excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of ammonia, which is highly toxic but very soluble and easily gotten rid of if water is in ample supply. Uric acid excretion may have first developed in the first vertebrates to evolve shelled, fully terrestrial eggs. Such eggs must retain the waste products produced by embryonic metabolism within the shell until hatching. Toxic, soluble ammonia would soon poison a developing embryo, while non-toxic, insoluble uric acid can simply be stored inside the shell as long as necessary. In developing live birth, mammals may have switched to back to a more soluble compound, urea, so that embryonic waste products could be diffused into the blood stream of the mother and thus excreted.
if you're an 'artist' and are adamant about being paid for each and every copy, don't create anything that can be easily copied by your admiring public. That includes audio, video, writing, software, or ip in general. Face it, your just trying to cash in on the 85% profit margin of being able to produce once, make easy copies and distribute them. But now your customers have the ability to make easy copies and share them. Face it. Instead, go into sculpture, crafts, paintings, custom autos, landscaping, live performances, etc etc etc.
NO, this is not a troll, just a clear headed statement of fact. If you want to press an audio cd and sell copies, fine. Just realize there's going to be 'shrinkage' from maximum profit and you can cuss and stomp, beg for govt assistance, try to get consumer devices banned, mandate DRM in every electronic device, but the genie is already out of the bottle and everybody has one now. Artists and publishers are just going to have to adapt to the new environment or go extinct.
Small quibble - it's "embrace and extend", a two phase process of privitizing open protocols involving 1) embrace - announce that your product will conform to industry standards to lure customers in, and 2) extend - make proprietary 'improvements'* to the standard that make it incompatible with competing products, locking their investment into a single vendor solution.
Saying "extend and embrace" is kinda like saying "conquor and divide".
*most times the 'improvements' are indeed real and should be paid for, they just have the 'unfortunate' side effect of locking out competition from less innovative companies, just like progress in the technical arts has the unfortunate side effect of forcing you to throw out a perfectly good machine and buy a new one. Sorry about that. But sometimes the incompatible extensions largely ARE anticompetitive. I think that's one way to nail Msft's tactics is get a judge to consider something like the Kerberos extensions that make Msft's incompatible with other implementations. Is the inconvenience of this incompatibility actually a real 'improvement' of such value to a customer that it's worth ditching competitors and going with the alledgedly superior single vendor solution? I think not - it's incompatibility for the purpose of leveraging a monopoly position in one segment into others.
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I found something bizzar on ModernHumorist this morning - "If poets wrote poems whose titles were anagrams of their names" (Like "Toilets", by T.S. Elliot) - just be sure to check out the one by William Shakespeare ;)) The Dickenson one too - somebody put some work into those.
this guy goes into a psychiatrists office and the doc shows him some ink blots (rorschach test) - the first one reminds him of sex, the next one reminds him of sex, etc. The doc finally say, "I zee you are obsessed with sex", and the guy says, "Me? You're the one with all the dirty pictures".
Yes, but what they DONT tell you is that's it was a clever pre-planned bug intentionally planted so they can automatically update it when they got the payment and go ahead from the RIAA to install the DRM modules along with it, as publicly stated in the updated license agreement you agreed to when you clicked on the "I Agree" button under the agreement you didn't read that said the agreement may be changed at any time w/o having to notify you, and therefore all perfectly legal.
If they don't want to pay the bill
they, um, won't pay the bill - often using the 'just try and collect' tactic.
is 'circulation' - the reason those morons are so keen on keeping people on their 'hit' list is so they can go to their paying clients and say, "Look! You're message is reaching 250,000 potential customers". The more 'circulation' or ratings a paper, magazine or program has, the more they can charge for it. Nevermind the fact that 249,997 people have just associated $PRODUCT with annoying marketing tactics.
another thing is the Mini-Z's have proportional control. From what I've seen the MicroSizers are just full on/stop, slam bang to the right or left, difficult to control. Wasn't much fun to me.
[this was blatantly copied from http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/check.htm ]
Gift-giving is an integral part of the holiday season, and one is expected to expend not just money on the endeavor, but time and effort too. To write a check or enclose money in a card is to distill the process down to only one aspect of the tradition, arguably the least important. One, in effect, puts an explicit pricetag on a relationship, making a cold but straightforward assessment of that person's worth in the giver's life. It is for this reason etiquette frowns upon the practice -- though the cash might be welcome, the lack of sentiment behind the present is not.
Well, these guys are ready.
Once again, life imitates humorous SciFi - the TIA project sounds amazingly like the Total Perspective Vortex.
They (pbs that is) say that part of Edison's popular success is that he grew up around telegraph offices, with reporters around, where he learned how to work with The Media, what they want, what it takes to get your story out.
;)
However, setting records and getting into the Guinness book does require an official observer and records - it's hard to get away with going off and setting a record, then just ringing up the local paper and telling them about it. Anybody can fake that. The important thing is to have it measured, documented, verified and confirmed by someone the media trusts, sort of like web server certificates. It's not necessarily 'marketing' ( all of which is lies to me
Gravity == Acceleration
They need some good propulsion to actually GO somewhere instead of mindlessly bobbing about a gravity well like a bug circling the drain.
that I know of is this guy, the L'il Skeeter.
What a deal, they get charged with wire and mail fraud, and you get charged with breaking and entering, assault and battery.
Here's a brief page about some ibm tube logic modules, schematic for an 'inverter', etc. Anybody with an old 650 laying around I'll gladly cart it off for you.
just play anything with Windows 98 and you'll get the same effect.
No, gang, please - keep this is mind, nobody is trying to cause trouble. You see, there are hundreds of thousands of businesses throughout the world and they all have lots of great purchasing opportunities. As a volunteer group, we just want him to be aware of those purchase opportunties, that's all. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we simply want him to be a well informed, fully 'opted in' consumer.
Thank you.
Isn't the 'information economy' just wonderful ;))
I can see it now - you're falsly accused of something, your attorney comes up with a defense, but it turns out that defense is copyrighted. Now you owe TWO attorney's fees. They may as well just grab you by the ankles and shake you upside down to get every last penny out of your pockets. If an idiot judge can singlehandedly make 'business methods' patenable, I guess it won't be long before one of their own decides to make 'legal precedents' intellectual property.
Msft would never actually build the bridge, but they'd happily sell, at competitive price, a set of blueprints for new, inproved Advanced BridgeXP w/ patented extensions to the open High Level Traffic Shaping protocol (sorry, MsHLTS only works with MSHighWay) for a hefty fee and a legal disclaimer ("these blueprints provided AS IS w/o warranty express or implied as to useability or safety..."), but the state and taxpayers would have to do the construction. If any defects in the blueprints are found and corrected the state and taxpayers are responsible for obtaining new blueprints and the costs of implementing any corrections, incl wages of fitters, welders, construction equipment rentals, etc. Licensee of MSBridgeXP accepts all legal responsibilities for the safety of users, and indemnifies MSft of any and all risks. MSBridgeXP is protected by US and International copywrite treaties, and any unlicensed use will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
A short time ago the chief chicken-littles of the International Association of Environmental Alarmists and Extreamists (IAEAE) were collectively diving under their beds over a study showing how nearly every sq. inch of the planet has been hideously despoiled by nasty ol' humanity. Well, now comes a counter-study (partly funded by Gordon Moore) which claims "46 percent of Earth is still wilderness" - a salve sure to sooth the conscience of dollar sign-blinking land developers and construction workers everywhere.
Thus proving that, like statistics, politicians can pick a study to prove any damn thing they want. Meanwhile the truth continues to elude the media manipulated public.
You can send me to hell, you can put me on the rack, you can drive bamboo shoots under my fingernails. Is that going to stop somebody from copying a CD for a friend or sending it over the Internet? Nope. Is widespread dilution of profits going to discourage progress in the sciences and useful arts? Probably. Is it going to limit what's made available in electronic format? Most likeley. You can lecture about paying for the costs of production untill you're blue in the face. Is any of that going to stop someone from duping a Harry Potter DVD for a friend who wants one? Not one bit. Everyone should pay for their material and drive under the speed limit. You can either get your undies in a wad over it all or just relax and enjoy the crisis.
Q: What's the white stuff in bird poop?
Here's everything you need to know:
Birds excrete their nitrogenous wastes, derived mostly from the breakdown of proteins, in the form of uric acid rather than urea as mammals do. Unlike urea, uric acid is almost insoluble in water, and is excreted in the form of crystals that form a semisolid white paste. Not needing to store liquid wastes, birds lack a bladder. Instead urine passes from the ureters into the cloaca, a common chamber for the passage of digestive and urinary wastes, as well as for reproductive products. A bird dropping usually contains both white uric acid crystals, and a concentrated mass of digestive wastes such as insect cuticle or seeds.
Most aquatic vertebrates excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of ammonia, which is highly toxic but very soluble and easily gotten rid of if water is in ample supply. Uric acid excretion may have first developed in the first vertebrates to evolve shelled, fully terrestrial eggs. Such eggs must retain the waste products produced by embryonic metabolism within the shell until hatching. Toxic, soluble ammonia would soon poison a developing embryo, while non-toxic, insoluble uric acid can simply be stored inside the shell as long as necessary. In developing live birth, mammals may have switched to back to a more soluble compound, urea, so that embryonic waste products could be diffused into the blood stream of the mother and thus excreted.
build one of these
if you're an 'artist' and are adamant about being paid for each and every copy, don't create anything that can be easily copied by your admiring public. That includes audio, video, writing, software, or ip in general. Face it, your just trying to cash in on the 85% profit margin of being able to produce once, make easy copies and distribute them. But now your customers have the ability to make easy copies and share them. Face it. Instead, go into sculpture, crafts, paintings, custom autos, landscaping, live performances, etc etc etc.
NO, this is not a troll, just a clear headed statement of fact. If you want to press an audio cd and sell copies, fine. Just realize there's going to be 'shrinkage' from maximum profit and you can cuss and stomp, beg for govt assistance, try to get consumer devices banned, mandate DRM in every electronic device, but the genie is already out of the bottle and everybody has one now. Artists and publishers are just going to have to adapt to the new environment or go extinct.
a breakup is a death sentence for a corporation
It wasn't bad for Rockefeller - he made even more $$$ after Standard Oil was split up.
Small quibble - it's "embrace and extend", a two phase process of privitizing open protocols involving 1) embrace - announce that your product will conform to industry standards to lure customers in, and 2) extend - make proprietary 'improvements'* to the standard that make it incompatible with competing products, locking their investment into a single vendor solution.
Saying "extend and embrace" is kinda like saying "conquor and divide".
*most times the 'improvements' are indeed real and should be paid for, they just have the 'unfortunate' side effect of locking out competition from less innovative companies, just like progress in the technical arts has the unfortunate side effect of forcing you to throw out a perfectly good machine and buy a new one. Sorry about that. But sometimes the incompatible extensions largely ARE anticompetitive. I think that's one way to nail Msft's tactics is get a judge to consider something like the Kerberos extensions that make Msft's incompatible with other implementations. Is the inconvenience of this incompatibility actually a real 'improvement' of such value to a customer that it's worth ditching competitors and going with the alledgedly superior single vendor solution? I think not - it's incompatibility for the purpose of leveraging a monopoly position in one segment into others.